Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

63^rd Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR

POWER PLANT CATASTROPHE STILL BEING FELT, 15 YEARS LATER

Debate Begins on United Nations Relief, Disaster Assistance;

Delivery of Aid, Protection of Humanitarian Workers Among Issues Raised

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

31^st Meeting (AM)

INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF AFRICAN DEBT SUSTAINABILITY URGED AS SECOND COMMITTEE

HEARS REPORTS ON TRADE, GLOBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT

Committee Also Hears Introduction of Draft Text

On Natural Resources of Palestinian Territory, Syrian Golan

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON UNITED NATIONS

CONSOLIDATED INTER-AGENCY APPEALS

Following is today’s press statement on the United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeals by Mignonette Patricia Durrant (Jamaica), President of the Security Council:

ADDRESSING RWANDA CONFERENCE OF GENOCIDE SURVIVORS, SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES

‘THOSE WHO LIVE ON TO REMEMBER AND REBUILD’

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION 1267 (1999)

CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN ISSUES A NEW CONSOLIDATED LIST

(Reissued for technical reasons.)

The new consolidated list consists of two sections:

A.    List pursuant to paragraph 4 (b) of resolution 1267 (1999)

B.    Listpursuant to paragraph 8 (c) of resolution 1333 (2000) 

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

49^th Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS INTRODUCTION OF FIVE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Discussion of Racism, Racial Discrimination Postponed

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY TO HELP FACILITATE MYANMAR TALKS

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

Mr. Razali Ismail, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, will visit Yangon from 27 November to 4 December 2001 to help facilitate the talks between the Government and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for democratization and national reconciliation in Myanmar.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

47^th Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION URGING SUPPORT

FOR PALESTINIAN QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION

CORRECTION

Round-Up of Session

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Considered Reports of Ukraine, Benin, Indonesia, Zambia and Israel

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

4424^th Meeting (AM)

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL

ON INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT