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Press Releases 2002 (4th Committee)

-  RIGHT OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES TO SELF-DETERMINATION REAFFIRMED, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES NINE DECOLONIZATION TEXTS on 4 October 2002
-  NO ALTERNATIVE TO SELF-DETERMINATION IN DECOLONIZATION PROCESS, GIBRALTAR'S CHIEF MINISTER TELLS FOURTH COMMITTEE on 3 October 2002
-  WESTERN SAHARA SETTLEMENT PLAN MUST BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT DELAY, SAY SPEAKERS IN FOURTH COMMITTEE on 2 October 2002
-  DEVELOPMENTS IN TOKELAU DESCRIBED AS MODEL FOR ACHIEVING PROGRESS IN NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES, DURING FOURTH COMMITTEE DEBATE on 1 October 2002
-  NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TIMOR-LESTE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS on 1 October 2002
-  SPEAKERS CELEBRATE TIMOR-LESTE’S INDEPENDENCE, CALL FOR PROGRESS ON REMAINING TERRITORIES, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE BEGINS DECOLONIZATION DEBATE on 30 September 2002
-  UNANIMOUS ASSEMBLY DECISION MAKES TIMOR-LESTE 191ST UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATE on 27 September 2002
-  SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS REPORT OF VISITING MISSION TO TOKELAU on 26 September 2002
-  FOURTH COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRPERSONS AND RAPPORTEUR AS IT HOLDS FIRST MEETING on 26 September 2002
-  GRAHAM MAITLAND OF SOUTH AFRICA: CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE on 11 September 2002
 PROPOSALS, RECOMMENDATIONS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING ENDORSED IN DRAFT TEXT APPROVED BY FOURTH COMMITTEE on 26 April 2002

2001 (4th Committee) Press Releases

-  Administering powers' responsibilities in remaining territories stressed, as Fourth Committee concludes general debate on decolonization on 12 October 2001
-  Fourth Committee considers questions of Gibraltar, Western Sahara; told self-determination only alternative in decolonization process on 10 October 2001


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