PRESS STATEMENT ON UNAMSIL (SIERRA LEONE) BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of a statement to the press made by Security Council President Richard Ryan (Ireland) this afternoon:

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations briefed Council members on the current situation regarding the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and the progress being made with the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programme.

PRESS STATEMENT ON ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the text of today’s statement by the President of the Security Council, Richard Ryan (Ireland):

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

17^th Meeting (PM)

ASSEMBLY HEARS CALL FOR DEFINITION OF TERRORISM

Definition Must Distinguish

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

PERSISTENT ‘GAPS, CONTRADICTIONS’ BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT RHETORIC, REALITY

OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, SECOND COMMITTEE IS TOLD

Resource Mobilization, Private Sector Participation,

Equitable Trade System, Seen as Crucial to Meeting Development Goals

STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TREATY CONCLUDE

THIRD PREPARATORY COMMITTEE MEETING

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)  

SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE CALL FOR ABOLITION

OF TRADE PROTECTIONISM

The multilateral trading system should be adjusted and reformed in order to be more open, equitable and non-discriminatory, the representative of Slovakia told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning as it continued its general debate.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

15^th Meeting (PM)

TERRORISM REQUIRES RESPONSE FOUNDED ON INCLUSION, FAIRNESS, LEGITIMACY,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD, AS DEBATE CONTINUES

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

14^th Meeting (AM)

SPEAKERS CALL FOR COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON TERRORISM,

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST SUICIDE BOMBING IN KASHMIR

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

The Secretary-General utterly condemns the terrorist suicide bombing that occurred yesterday in Srinagar in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.  He expresses his condolences to the bereaved families.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

13^th Meeting (PM)

EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL SECURITY MUST INCLUDE ACTION

ON POVERTY AND INJUSTICE, GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD

Condemning Terrorism, Delegates Say Counter-Measure

Should Be Directed against Extremists, Not Wider Community