Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

105^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES BUDGET OF JUST OVER $2.6 BILLION

FOR 12 ACTIVE PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS IN 2002-2003

Figure Includes $141.55 Million for Strategic Deployment Stocks

Acting on the recommendations of its Fifth Committee (Administrative

and Budgetary) this morning, the General Assembly adopted a budget of some

Security Council

4561^st Meeting (AM)

CHAIRMAN OF SECURITY COUNCIL’S COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE DESCRIBES

RECENT SUCCESS IN IMPLEMENTING COUNCIL’S ANTI-TERRORISM STRATEGY

Cites Growing Awareness of Global Structure to Combat Terrorism,

WITH COMMITMENT, ‘GROUP OF 8’ SUMMIT COULD MARK TURNING POINT FOR AFRICA,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE IN CANADA

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a Group of 8 (G-8) Press Conference in Kananaskis, Canada, on 27 June:

RABAT MEETING ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES WITH FINAL COMMUNIQUE

Experts Examine International Efforts at Salvaging

Peace in Middle East and African Support for Palestinian Rights

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Background Release

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TO BEGIN ANNUAL SESSION ON 1 JULY WITH HIGH-LEVEL

FOCUS ON HUMAN RESOURCES, HEALTH, EDUCATION

UN Development Activities, Coordination Issues, Humanitarian

Affairs, Human Rights Also To Be Considered by Meeting Ending on 26 July

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH A KEY TOOL IN WIDER BATTLE AGAINST POVERTY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN POPULATION DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for World Population Day, 11 July:

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES SECOND PART OF 2002 SESSION

Russian Federation, China Present Joint Working Paper on Prevention

Of Deployment of Weapons in Outer Space; Germany Assumes Presidency of Conference

(Reissued as received.)

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Special Committee on

Decolonization

10^th Meeting (AM)

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN TERRITORIES

Concluding Current Session, Committee Also Approves Mission to Tokelau

AFRICAN NGO WORKSHOP ON PALESTINE QUESTION MEETS IN MOROCCO

RABAT, Morocco, 26 June (UN Information Service) –- The Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Papa Luis Fall, in an address to the United Nations Workshop of African non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the question of Palestine this morning, called for more intensified efforts by civil society organizations in support of the Palestinian people.