UNEP, US NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER

POLLUTION-FREE ELECTRICITY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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Security Council

4616^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS ANNUAL REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Security Council, this morning, adopted without a vote its annual report to the General Assembly for the period 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Sixth Committee

2nd Meeting (PM)

SIXTH COMMITTEE BEGINS DISCUSSION OF MEASURES TO ENHANCE

PROTECTION OF DIPLOMATIC/CONSULAR MISSIONS, PERSONNEL

The Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon began discussion of the issue of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and their representatives.

‘TODAY’S REAL BORDER ARE NOT BETWEEN NATIONS, BUT BETWEEN POWERFUL AND POWERLESS,

FREE AND FETTERED, PRIVILEGED AND HUMILIATED’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the

UNA-USA Dinner held in New York, on 25 September:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fourth Committee

1st Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRPERSONS

AND RAPPORTEUR AS IT HOLDS FIRST MEETING

Work Programme for Fifty-seventh General Assembly Session Approved

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.

Committee on Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

Civil Society Conference

AM & PM Meetings

AS CONFERENCE CONCLUDES, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS COMMIT

TO PROTECTION FORCE FOR PALESTINIANS

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/PAL/902 issued on 24 September, the second to last paragraph on page 15 should read:

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee

1st Meeting (AM)

PRESS STATEMENT ON LIBERIA BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is last night’s press statement on Liberia by Stefan Tafrov (Bulgaria), President of the Security Council:

Members of the Council received a briefing by Tuliameni Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Political Affairs, who updated them on the recent situation in Liberia.