Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

39^th Meeting (PM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE APPROVES SEVEN DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON TRIBUNALS, DUES PAYMENTS,

UN COMMON SYSTEM, INTERNAL OVERSIGHT, POLITICAL MISSIONS

UN WELCOMES GROWING PARTNERSHIP WITH WEST AFRICAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO DAKAR MEETING

PRESS STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL ON REPATRIATION OF KUWAITI,

THIRD-COUNTRY NATIONALS AND RETURN OF KUWAITI PROPERTIES

Following is the text of today’s press statement by the President of the Security Council, Moctar Ouane (Mali) on the Secretary-General’s report on the repatriation of Kuwaitis and third-country nationals and the return of Kuwaiti properties:

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTLINES VISION FOR BUILDING SECURE FUTURE IN REPORT

FOR WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The global economic growth that propelled many economies during the 1990’s did not promote sustainable development, or the kind of development that encompasses economic growth, social development, and environmental protection, according to a new report issued by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

Security Council

4440^th Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL VOICES FULL SUPPORT FOR OFFICE OF SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR WEST AFRICA

In Presidential Statement, Council Also Stresses Need

To Strengthen Capacities of Economic Community of West African States

SIXTEENTH LAW OF SEA FELLOWSHIP AWARDED

NEW YORK, 13 December (Office of Legal Affairs) -- The Legal Counsel of the United Nations, acting on the recommendation of an expert advisory panel, has made two awards under the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, the regular sixteenth award to Kamran Hashemi of Iran and a second, funded by a special grant from the United Kingdom, to Boris Danailov of Bulgaria.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

88^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY REITERATES CONDEMNATION OF TERRORISM; ADOPTS 65 RESOLUTIONS

ON SOCIAL, HUMANITARIAN ISSUES, 16 BY RECORDED VOTE

Subjects Include Human Rights, Refugees, Globalization,

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of this morning’s press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the President of the Security Council, Moctar Ougne (Mali):

Security Council

4441^st Meeting (Night)

SECURITY COUNCIL, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, CONDEMNS PLUNDERING

OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT HEADQUARTERS, 19 DECEMBER

The Secretary-General: As usual, we meet before the holidays to thank you for all your interest and support during the year 2001 and to wish you all the very best for 2002.

This has been an extraordinary year -- an extraordinary year for the United Nations, for New York, for the United States and for much of the world.