SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN ISSUES LIST PURSUANT

TO PARAGRAPH 8 (c) OF RESOLUTION 1333 (2000)

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

3^rd Meeting (PM)

SECOND ANTI-COLONIALISM DECADE, SMALL ISLAND STATES, WESTERN SAHARA

AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

First Committee

3^rd Meeting (AM)

REMARKABLE UNITY IN WAKE OF 11 SEPTEMBER TERRORIST ATTACK MUST BE USED

TO REINFORCE MULTILATERAL DISARMAMENT REGIME, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD

Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Says Realizing Attack’s

Impact if Nuclear, Chemical Weapons Used Committee’s Starting Point

SECRETARY-GENERAL SHOCKED AT LOSS OF UN HELICOPTER IN GEORGIA

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

The Secretary-General was shocked to learn today that a United Nations  helicopter carrying nine passengers and crew was reportedly shot down in the western part of the Kodori Valley in Georgia.

IMPLEMENTATION OF DESERTIFICATION CONVENTION A FACTOR FOR STABILITY, ENSURING FOOD

SECURITY, PREVENTING MIGRATORY FLOWS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of a message by the Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Geneva:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE, OPENING CONSIDERATION OF JIU REPORTS,

WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF FOLLOW-UP MECHANISM

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

3^rd Meeting (PM)

MORE SUPPORT EXPRESSED FOR INCREASED FINANCIAL, PERSONNEL RESOURCES

FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW COMMISSION

Assembly’s Legal Committee Continues Review of UNCITRAL Annual Report

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

3^rd Meeting (PM)

HIGH INEQUALITY A MAJOR IMPEDIMENT TO ECONOMIC GROWTH,

POVERTY ALLEVIATION, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

Social, Humanitarian, Cultural Committee Open Substantive Session

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS NOW IS TIME TO UNITE AGAINST TERRORISM;

CAUTIONS THAT HUMANITARIAN AID TO AFGHANISTAN MUST CONTINUE

Following is the text of the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea), following the Assembly debate on international terrorism:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

23^rd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS BULGARIA, CAMEROON, GUINEA, MEXICO, SYRIA

TO TWO-YEAR TERMS ON SECURITY COUNCIL

Terms to Begin on 1 January 2002