Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

                                                            SG/SM/8420

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES MILITARY ATTACK

IN CIVILIAN AREAS IN SOUTHERN GAZA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

24^th and 25^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FOCUS ON CONFLICT PREVENTION AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DEBATE ON WORK

OF ORGANIZATION AND FOLLOW-UP TO MILLENNIUM SUMMIT

ADDRESSING SECURITY COUNCIL, SECRETARY-GENERAL ENDORSES

THREE-PRONGED COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council at today’s meeting to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Committee on Counter-Terrorism:

Your meeting today reflects your determination to confront reality rather than escape from it; to recognize an evil rather than excuse it. 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

3rd Meeting (AM)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

22^nd and 23^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

RESULTS ARE MIXED SO FAR IN IMPLEMENTATION OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT

GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Assembly Also Takes up His Report on the Work of the Organization

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

RIGHT OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES TO SELF-DETERMINATION REAFFIRMED,

AS FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES NINE DECOLONIZATION TEXTS

Small Island Territories, Western Sahara,

Natural Resource Exploitation among Other Issues Addressed

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

10^th Meeting (AM)

COMPLETION OF TWO FURTHER CONVENTIONS AGAINST TERRORISM

IS URGED IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE

Round-up

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIRST SESSION

Recommendations Adopted on Argentina, United Kingdom, Seychelles,

Sudan, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Burkina Faso, Poland and Israel

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 4 October (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its thirty-first session today, having considered reports of