Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

44^th Meeting (PM)

WORLD’S BURGEONING REFUGEE PROBLEM REFLECTS INADEQUACIES

OF CURRENT PROTECTION SYSTEM, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

The world's burgeoning refugee problem clearly reflected the inadequacies of the current international protection system, several delegations told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian, Cultural) this afternoon as its discussions about

Committee on Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

260^th Meeting (AM)

USE OF TERM ‘PALESTINE’ BY US PRESIDENT ‘A STEP FORWARD’,

PALESTINE OBSERVER TELLS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Peaceful

Settlement; Information; Division's, Committee's Work Programmes

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TURNING POINT REACHED IN FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS,

IN MESSAGE ON WORLD AIDS DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World AIDS Day, observed 1 December:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly Plenary

Sixth Committee

27^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE CALLS FOR WORKING GROUPS ON HUMAN CLONING, BETTER

PROTECTION FOR UN, RELATED PERSONNEL; OTHER TEXTS ALSO APPROVED

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

27^th Meeting (AM)

REPORT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL UNDER SECOND COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

Committee Also Considering Draft Texts Sponsored by Group of 77

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ORDERLY, PEACEFUL CONDUCT OF KOSOVO ELECTIONS

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

PRESS STATEMENT ON KOSOVO, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA,

BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is today’s press statement on Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, by Mignonette Patricia Durrant (Jamaica), President of the Security Council:

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN STATEMENT TO MOSCOW ROUND TABLE, STRESSES

ROLE OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY ON GLOBAL ISSUES

This is the text of a statement in Moscow today by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at a round-table meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and the Russian business community:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

59^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, HEADS OF UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES, TO LAUNCH APPEALS

FOR WORLDWIDE VICTIMS OF WAR AND CONFLICT

Consolidated Inter-Agency Effort to Meet Humanitarian Crises