UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO HOLD FORTY-FIFTH SESSION FROM 1 TO 3 OCTOBER 2002

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 September -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) will hold its forty-fifth session from 1 to

3 October 2002 under the presidency of Ambassador Sverre Bergh Johansen (Norway).

Background Release

STALLED GLOBAL DISARMAMENT EFFORTS, TERRORIST USE OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES COURAGE, DETERMINATION OF TIMOR-LESTE

AT HEADQUARTERS FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the flag-raising ceremony for Timor-Leste in New York on 27 September:

Bom Dia,

This is an historic occasion.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

First Committee

1^st Meeting (AM)

FIRST COMMITTEE ELECTS OFFICERS, ADOPTS WORK PROGRAMME;

WILL HOLD GENERAL DEBATE 30 SEPTEMBER - 11 OCTOBER

The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) this morning, in a brief organizational meeting, elected officers and adopted its programme of work and the agenda for the fifty-seventh session.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Plenary

20th Meeting (AM)

UNANIMOUS ASSEMBLY DECISION MAKES TIMOR-LESTE 191^ST UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATE

Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Germany, Spain

Elected Non-Permanent Members of Security Council from 1 January 2003

By unanimous decision of the General Assembly, Timor-Leste became the 191^st United Nations Member State this morning.

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Following is today’s press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Stefan Tafrov (Bulgaria), President of the Security Council:

MORE PROGRESS EXPECTED ON UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

Ad Hoc Committee for Negotiation of Convention

Against Corruption Holds Third Session in Vienna, 30 September–11 October

(Reissued as received.)

Special Committee on

Decolonization

11^th Meeting (PM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS REPORT OF VISITING MISSION TO TOKELAU

The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples today approved the report of the United Nations mission to the Pacific Non-Self-Governing Territory of Tokelau as it resumed its 2002 session.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

1st Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRMEN, RAPPORTEUR;

ALSO ADOPTS WORK PROGRAMME FOR CURRENT SESSION

IN WAKE OF GAZA ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HALT ALL SUCH ACTIONS

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