ALL PRESS RELEASES BY CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

Click on symbol or headline to see full press release Symbol Headline 13 February, 2012 GA/11206 Top UN Human Rights Official Says Member States ‘Must Act Now’ to Protect Syrian People, as Violent Crackdown Continues, in Briefing to General Assembly GA/PAL/1222 Secretary-General Pledges to ‘Spare No Effort’ in Helping Middle East Conflict Parties Reach Better Future, as Palestinian Rights Committee Opens Session SG/SM/14105-GA/PAL/1223 International Community Will Not Accept Unilateral Actions, Secretary-General Tells Palestinian Rights Committee, Urging Parties to End ‘Provocations’ 7 February, 2012 GA/PAL/1220 Occupation Imposes ‘Huge Price Tag’ Without Which Palestinian Economy Would Be Double Its Size, United Nations Seminar Told GA/PAL/1221 Offsetting Cost of Occupation Faces ‘Stuttering Implementation’ of Peace Accords, Donor Policies Give Israel ‘Room’ to Pursue Ambitions, Seminar Hears 6 February, 2012 GA/PAL/1217 Cost-Benefit Calculus for Occupation Must Change, as Israel Reaping All Benefits, Says Palestinian Rights Committee Chairman as UN Seminar Opens in Cairo GA/PAL/1219 Israeli Economic Policies, East Jerusalem’s Separation, Crippling Closures Hamper Growth in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UN Seminar Told SG/SM/14094-GA/PAL/1218 Secretary-General, in Message to UN Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People, Says Status Quo Is Unacceptable, Guarantees Continuing Conflict, Suffering 2 February, 2012 GA/PAL/1216 United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People Considers Economic Cost of Continued Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territory, in Cairo, 6-7 February 25 January, 2012 GA/11205 General Assembly Reaffirms ‘Strong and Continuing’ Support for Kimberley Process Certification Scheme Aimed at Eliminating Conflict-Diamond Trade SG/SM/14081-GA/11204 Secretary-General Presents Five-year Action Agenda to General Assembly, Highlighting Killer Diseases, Sustainable Development, Preventive Approaches as Priorities 29 December, 2011 GA/11203 Citing ‘Shifting Sands’, General Assembly President Says Future Generations Will Hold Member States Accountable for Their Response to Current Challenges 27 December, 2011 SG/SM/14036-GA/11202 Secretary-General, Hailing Adoption of 2012-2013 Programme Budget, Pledges Efficient Delivery of Mandates, Greater Cost Savings 24 December, 2011 GA/11201 Having Made Hard Choices, Found Savings while Protecting United Nations Ability to Get Job Done, General Assembly Adopts $5.15 Billion Budget for 2012-2013 GA/AB/4021 Fifth Committee, Concluding Session, Recommends $5.15 Billion Budget for 2012-2013, Including Financing for 29 Special Political Missions 22 December, 2011 GA/11200 Effects of Global Crises on Poor Countries, Sustainable Development Conference Feature as General Assembly Considers Reports of Second Committee 20 December, 2011 GA/11199 General Assembly Speakers Praise Kimberly Process for Significantly Reducing Scope of Conflict Diamond Trade, Say Initiative ‘Too Important to Fail’ 19 December, 2011 GA/11198 General Assembly Adopts More Than 60 Resolutions Recommended by Third Committee, Including Text Condemning Grave, Systematic Human Rights Violations in Syria GA/AB/4020 Budgetary Committee Urged to Back Secretary-General’s Request for Additional Funds To Support United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire for 2011-2012 Period 16 December, 2011 GA/11197 Speakers in General Assembly Call for Stronger United Nations Role at Heart of Global Economic Governance GA/AB/4019 As Budget Committee Takes Up Review of Financing for Special Political Missions, Top UN Official Says Numerous Proposals Offered to Improve Budgetary Framework 15 December, 2011 GA/11196 General Assembly Adopts Four Resolutions as Speakers Stress Importance of Streamlining Responses to Complex Humanitarian Emergencies GA/PAL/1215 Bid for Full United Nations Membership ‘Not a Provocation’, Head of Palestine Observer Mission Tells Committee 14 December, 2011 GA/11195 Speakers Stress Need to Scale Up ‘Smarter’ Humanitarian Aid as General Assembly Holds Annual Debate on Disaster, Emergency Relief 13 December, 2011 GA/11194 General Assembly, Security Council Fill Remaining Vacancy on International Court of Justice by Concurrently Electing Fifth Judge GA/AB/4018 Fifth Committee Takes Up 2012-2013 Financing for Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia Tribunals; Proposed Budgets for New Missions in Libya, South Sudan 12 December, 2011 GA/11193 General Assembly Endorses Initiative of Member States to Erect, at Headquarters, Permanent Memorial Acknowledging Victims of Slavery, Transatlantic Slave Trade 9 December, 2011 GA/11191 General Assembly, on Recommendation of Fourth Committee, Adopts 26 Texts, including 9 on Arab Israeli Conflict, 11 on Decolonization GA/11192 General Assembly, on Recommendation of Its Legal Committee, Adopts 25 Texts, Advances Preparations for Rule of Law Summit in September 2012 GA/AB/4017 Fifth Committee Takes Up Annual Update on Plan to Refurbish UN Headquarters; Project Head Envisions Completion within 4 Per Cent of Original Budget GA/EF/3332 Acting Without Votes, Second Committee Approves 3 Draft Resolutions, Programme of Work as Session Concludes 8 December, 2011 GA/11189 Development Cooperation Is Smart Investment in Security, Prosperity; Together, Way Will Be Found to Maximize It, Acting General Assembly President Says GA/11190 Three Panel Discussions, Held in Parallel with the Development Financing Dialogue, Consider Systemic Reform, Innovative Aid Sources, Resilience of Foreign Investment 7 December, 2011 DSG/SM/596-GA/11187-DEV/2928 New Ways to Complement, Strengthen Traditional Assistance Needed, Stresses Deputy Secretary-General at High-level Dialogue on Development Financing GA/11186 ‘Time to Get Back to Basics’, Fulfil Commitments of Governments to Development Financing, General Assembly Hears at Opening of Two-Day High-level Event GA/11188-PAL/2149 Eighteen Donors Pledge Contributions to United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees, with Agency Facing Severe, Chronic Financial Constraints 6 December, 2011 GA/11185 General Assembly Adopts Resolution Aimed at Ensuring Sustainability of World’s Fisheries, as It Holds Annual Debate on UN Regime Protecting Seas, Oceans GA/EF/3331 Second Committee Approves Six Draft Resolutions by Consensus as Group of 77 ‘Profoundly Regrets’ Passage of ‘Procedural’ Middle-Income Countries Text 5 December, 2011 GA/11184 Volunteerism One of ‘Clearest Expressions of Solidarity in Action’, Effective, Sustainable Force for Development, General Assembly Told 2 December, 2011 GA/11182 General Assembly, Gravely Concerned about Status of UN Disarmament Machinery, Especially in Conference on Disarmament, Invites States to Explore Options GA/11183 General Assembly Speakers Underscore Vital Importance of Building Momentum towards Achieving Global Development Goals, Beginning Discussion of Post-2015 Agenda GA/AB/4016 Fifth Committee Recommends Additional $70 Million for Democratic Republic of Congo Mission for Technical, Logistical Support During Elections GA/EF/3330 Second Committee Approves Text Stressing Need to Reduce Volatility in Food Prices as It Takes Action on Five Draft Resolutions 1 December, 2011 GA/11181 General Assembly Should Be Place for Finding Solutions, Responding to Challenges, Building Global Consensus, Says President, Opening Debate on Revitalization GA/EF/3329 Second Committee Approves Text Urging Elimination of Unilateral Coercive Economic Measures against Developing Countries 30 November, 2011 GA/11180 General Assembly Adopts Six Resolutions, Concluding Debates on Question of Palestine, Wider Middle East Situation 29 November, 2011 GA/11179 Member States Have ‘Historic Moment’ to Act, Says Palestinian Envoy, Challenging General Assembly to Redress ‘Tragedy’, as Debate Opens on Question of Palestine GA/AB/4015 Deputy Secretary-General Tells Budget Committee Resource Planning Project, Umoja; Information, Communication Initiatives ‘Cornerstones of Management Reform’ GA/PAL/1214 On International Day of Solidarity, Palestinian Rights Committee Told 64 Years after Partition Plan, ‘History Once Again Knocking at United Nations Door’ 25 November, 2011 GA/PAL/1213-OBV/1055 Observance of International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, 29 November 22 November, 2011 GA/11178 General Assembly, After Four Inconclusive Voting Rounds, Remains at Stalemate with Security Council Over Filling Seat on International Court of Justice GA/EF/3328 Second Committee Approves Draft Resolution Urging Coral Reef Protection as Members Take Consensus Action to Pass 12 Texts, Including 7 on Sustainable Development GA/SHC/4033 Third Committee Approves Resolution Condemning Human Rights Violations in Syria, by Vote of 122 in Favour to 13 Against, with 41 Abstentions 21 November, 2011 GA/11177 Adopting Wide-ranging Text, General Assembly Pledges Continued Support to Afghan Government, People, Urges Cooperation to Ensure Success of ‘Kabul Process’ GA/SHC/4032 Third Committee Approves Draft Resolutions on Human Rights Situations in Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Myanmar 18 November, 2011 GA/11176 General Assembly Adopts Text Deploring Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Envoy to United States; Calls on Iran to Help Bring Perpetrators to Justice GA/PAL/1212 Palestinian Rights Committee Asks General Assembly to Stress Urgency of Salvaging Prospects for Peace, by One of Four Draft Resolutions Approved Today GA/SHC/4031 Third Committee Approves Text Stressing Critical Importance of Women's Political Participation in All Contexts — Peace, Conflict, Political Transition 17 November, 2011 GA/11175 General Assembly Fills Vacancies on International Law Commission, Committee for Programme and Coordination GA/EF/3327 Second Committee Approves Text Relating to Permanent Palestinian Sovereignty over Resources in Occupied Territories, Oil Slick on Lebanese Shores GA/SHC/4030 Third Committee Approves Resolution Recommending Adoption of United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training 15 November, 2011 GA/AB/4014 Budget Committee Considers Comprehensive Emergency Management Framework for United Nations Secretariat in New York GA/SHC/4029 Text Recommending Adoption of Protocol to Child Rights Convention Establishing Communications Procedure for Individual Complaints Approved By Third Committee 11 November, 2011 GA/11174 Top Officials from International Tribunals for Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia Hail Courts’ Contributions as Deterrents against War Crimes, Further Atrocities GA/L/3430 Legal Committee Backs West African Economic Grouping for Observer Status in General Assembly; Procedure for Move Is Subject to Question 10 November, 2011 GA/11171 General Assembly, Concurrently with Security Council, Elects Four Judges to International Court of Justice GA/AB/4013 Budget Committee Hears Introduction of Reports on Organization’s Efforts to Implement International Public Sector Accounting Standards GA/EF/3326 Most Countries Far Short of ODA Target Figure 10 Years after Monterrey Consensus amid Crisis-Fuelled Plans to Slash Future Aid Budgets, Second Committee Told GA/SHC/4028 Third Committee Approves Text Condemning All Forms of Torture, Any Steps to Legalize Such Actions, Including on Grounds of National Security GA/SPD/499 Fourth Committee Concludes Work, Sending Total of 26 Drafts to General Assembly, Including Recommendation to Expand Scientific Committee’s Membership SG/SM/13935-GA/11172 Secretary-General Reports to Assembly on UN Role at Recent G-20 Summit, Points to Important 2012 Meetings to Further Continuing Objectives SG/SM/13936-GA/11173-AFR/2284 However Deep Libyan Anger at War Crimes Committed by Former Regime, Interim Government Must Persist to Prevent Acts of Revenge, Secretary-General Says 9 November, 2011 GA/11169 Security Council ‘Badly Out of Step’ with Evolution of Geopolitics, Speakers Say as General Assembly Concludes Annual Debate on Council Reform GA/L/3429 Current Discussion on Measures against International Terrorism Ends in Legal Committee; Form of Possible Convention Remains Issue SG/SM/13933-GA/11170 Sharper Appreciation of Mediation’s Potential as Promising, Cost-Effective Tool for Conflict Prevention, Peace Accords, Implementation, Says Secretary-General 8 November, 2011 GA/11168 ‘Opaque, Non-inclusive’ Security Council Must Pursue Lasting, Candid Interaction with Entire United Nations Membership, General Assembly Delegations Say GA/SHC/4027 Draft Text Approved by Third Committee Recognizes Youth as ‘Key Agents for Social Change’, Affirms Investment in Youth Crucial for Sustainable Development GA/SPD/498 ‘If Door to Israeli-Palestinian Peace Closes, Very Hard To Reopen’, Fourth Committee Delegate Says, Urging Bold Decisions for Sake of All in Region 4 November, 2011 GA/AB/4012 Budget Committee Recommends Appointments to Subsidiary Bodies GA/L/3428 Immunity of State Officials Remains at Issue as Legal Committee Ends Review of International Law Commission Report GA/SPD/497 Opportunity for Israeli-Palestinian Peace ‘Slipping Away’, Fourth Committee Hears During Consideration of Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices 3 November, 2011 GA/EF/3325 Speakers in Second Committee Stress Need to Reinforce Progress on United Nations-Private Sector Partnerships GA/SHC/4026 Third Committee Approves Draft Resolution on Women’s Anti-Discrimination Convention; Hears Introduction of 11 Texts on Wide Range of Issues 2 November, 2011 GA/11167 Presenting Annual Report, Human Rights Council President Tells General Assembly 2011 Review Process Provided Momentum for Body to ‘Rise above Group Politics’ GA/EF/3324 Energy-Food Links to Continue Growing as Cost of Oil Spurs Higher Commodity Prices, Senior Expert Tells Second Committee Panel Discussion GA/L/3427 Guidelines to Help States on Role of ‘Most-Favoured-Nation’ Clause in Trade, Investment Law Are Sought by Legal Committee Delegates GA/SHC/4025 Five Years after Creation, Human Rights Council Has Completed Appraisal of Human Rights Situation in Every Country in the World, Third Committee Told 1 November, 2011 GA/11165 Addressing General Assembly, International Atomic Energy Agency Chief Says Right Lessons Must Be Learned from Japanese Nuclear Accident GA/AB/4011 Budget Committee Takes Up Proposals for New Resources Aimed at Strengthening Two-Year-Old Overhaul of United Nations Justice System GA/EF/3323 Speakers in Second Committee Make Case for Third United Nations Conference on Urban Development as They Consider Work of UN-Habitat GA/L/3426 Legal Committee Is Told Immunity of High Officials in Foreign Jurisdiction Must Not Mean Impunity for Commission of Grave Crimes GA/SHC/4024 21st Century Proving to Be ‘Century of People on the Move’, Innovative Approaches Needed to Address New Patterns of Forced Displacement, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/496 Palestinian Refugee Agency’s Task of Serving as Lifeline to Millions amid Habitual Budgetary Constraints, Complex Political Environment, Focus in Fourth Committee SG/SM/13915-GA/11166-EN/261 Secretary-General Briefs Member States on ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ Initiative, Names Leaders of High-Level Action Group 31 October, 2011 GA/11164 United Nations Launches 2012 International Year of Cooperatives GA/DIS/3449 First Committee, Concluding Work for Session, Sends 52 Draft Texts to General Assembly Covering Broad Spectrum of Disarmament, Security Concerns GA/EF/3322 Usual Approach Will Lead to Irreversible Damage, Under-Secretary-General Warns as Second Committee Begins Considering Sustainable Development GA/L/3425 Expulsion of Aliens, Protection of Disaster Victims among Central Issues in Statements of Law Commission Officials to Legal Committee GA/SHC/4023 UN Expert Reports ‘Alarming Resurgence’ in Use of Mercenaries to Violate Human Rights, Often in New, Novel Ways, in Statement to Third Committee GA/SPD/495 Palestinian Refugees Watch Change Recast Middle East, Frustrated by Own Lack of Progress towards Ending 60-Year Plight, Fourth Committee Told 28 October, 2011 GA/AB/4010 Fifth Committee Concludes Discussion on Proposed Programme Budget for 2012-2013 with Several Speakers Saying Proposals Short-Change Development Agenda GA/DIS/3448 If Disarmament Conference Fails to Start Work by End of 2012 Session, General Assembly to Consider Options for Fissile Material Ban, Says First Committee GA/EF/3321 Speakers Underline Vital Need to Conclude Doha Talks as Second Committee Concludes General Discussion on International Trade, Commodities GA/L/3424 Legal Committee Delegates Suggest Flaws in International Law Commission Proposals, Suggest Possible Adjustments GA/SHC/4022 Ten Years after Global Agreement in Durban on Framework to Combat Racism, No Country Could Claim to Be Free from Scourge, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/494 Anti-Personnel Mines ‘Perverse’— Triggered by Victims, Not Combatants, Fourth Committee Delegate Declares, as Draft Approved to Assist Location, Removal 27 October, 2011 GA/AB/4008 Secretary-General Presents $5.2 Billion 2012-2013 Budget to Fifth Committee, Says Figure Acknowledges Ongoing Global Financial Uncertainty, Austerity GA/DIS/3447 First Committee Seeks to Ban Development of New Types of Mass Destruction Weapons, by One of 22 Draft Texts Forwarded to General Assembly for Adoption GA/EF/3320 Governments Must Create Jobs in Face of Worldwide Protest Movements, Warns International Labour Organization Chief during Panel Discussion GA/L/3423 Law Commission’s Work on `Protection of Disaster Victims’ Is Called Key Development in Codification of International Law GA/SHC/4021 In Third Committee, States Describe National Efforts Made to Meet Human Rights Obligations; Stress Rights Are Equal, Indivisible, Mutually Reinforcing GA/SPD/493 Fourth Committee Delegate Says Full-Scale Military Operations No Replacement for Diplomacy, Warning against Politicization of United Nations Peacekeeping SG/SM/13908-GA/AB/4009 Secretary-General Presents $5.2 Billion Proposed Programme Budget for 2012-2013; Says Reflects Challenge — Financing UN at Time of Global Austerity, Uncertainty 26 October, 2011 GA/11163 Presidents of International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice Present Annual Reports to General Assembly GA/DIS/3446 Voting Machine ‘Locks’ in Familiar Pattern as Disarmament Committee Sends 17 Drafts to General Assembly for Adoption GA/EF/3319 Arbitrary Detention, Excessive Force, Israeli Settlement Activity Increasing Palestinian Hardship, Regional Commission Chief Tells Second Committee GA/L/3422 Law Commission ‘Guide to Practice’ on Reservations to Treaties Is Applauded in Assembly’s Legal Committee, with Some Concerns GA/SHC/4020 With Crises Disproportionately Affecting Most Vulnerable, World Community Must Ensure Economic, Social Rights Not Relegated to Second Tier, Committee Told GA/SPD/492 ‘Creeping Perception’ in Peacekeeping that Countries Are Either Troop Contributors or Troop Funders Can Hinder Multilateral Engagement, Fourth Committee Hears 25 October, 2011 GA/11162 Speakers Denounce Cuban Embargo as ‘Sad Echo’ of Failed Cold War Politics; General Assembly, for Twentieth Year, Demands Lifting of Economic Blockade GA/DIS/3445 Perception in First Committee ‘World Cannot Afford to Stand Still’ on Disarmament, but Divergent Views Emerge on Reasons for Stagnation, Ways to Overcome It GA/EF/3318 Treat Farmers like Entrepreneurs to Boost Creation of Wealth, Jobs, Urges Delegate as Second Committee Concludes Debate on Agriculture Development, Food Security GA/L/3421 Legal Committee Notes Completion of Key Issues by International Law Commission; Delegates, Some Critical, Discuss Approaches for New Topics, Future Work GA/SHC/4019 Landmark Election in Tunisia Superb Demonstration of UN Providing Advice, Support, while Fully Respecting National Leadership, Ownership Third Committee Told GA/SPD/491 International Community Asked to ‘Bow Head’ in Memory of Those Who Pay Ultimate Price for Peace, as Fourth Committee Debate Centres on Respect for Host Country 24 October, 2011 GA/11161 General Assembly Elects 18 Members to Economic and Social Council GA/AB/4007 Budget Committee Considers Report of International Civil Service Commission, Hears Details of Efforts to Find Equitable Solutions for Staff GA/DIS/3444 Seven Draft Resolutions Introduced in First Committee, Two Reflecting Divergent Views on Solving Impasse in Multilateral Disarmament Forum GA/EF/3317 Nobel Laureate’s Pessimistic Look at Global Prospects Warns of ‘Economic Suicide’ Risk in Briefing to Second Committee, Economic and Social Council GA/L/3420 Legal Committee Begins Annual Review of Issues from International Law Commission, Said to Have Ever-Growing Global Impact GA/SHC/4018 Several Aspects of Sexual, Reproductive Health — Providing Information, Using Contraception, Abortion — Should Be ‘Decriminalized’, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/490 United Nations Peacekeeping Has ‘Responsibility and Privilege’ to Serve Those Grasping Promise of Peace, Security, Prosperity, Fourth Committee Told 21 October, 2011 GA/11160 General Assembly Elects Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, Togo as Non-Permanent Members of Security Council GA/AB/4006 Budget Committee Adopts Draft Text on Programme Planning GA/DIS/3443 If Conference on Disarmament Cannot Break 15-Year-Long Deadlock, United Nations Could ‘Lose Legitimacy in Disarmament Affairs’, First Committee Told GA/EF/3316 Further Delay in Implementing Action Programme for Least Developed Countries Risks Exacerbating Lives of World’s Poorest People, Second Committee Told GA/L/3419 Legal Committee Reviews Procedure for Dealing with Topics of Justice at United Nations, Principle of Applying Universal Jurisdiction GA/SHC/4017 Extremists Have Pushed Anti-immigration Agenda, but in Fact ‘We Are All Migrants’, Migrant Rights Are Human Rights, Says United Nations Expert in Third Committee GA/SPD/489 United Nations Scientific Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation Increasingly Important with Growing Use of Nuclear Energy, Fourth Committee Hears 20 October, 2011 GA/AB/4005 Weighing Financial Situation of United Nations, Budget Committee Delegates Press Member States to Pay All Dues, on Time, in Full GA/DIS/3442 Unregulated Information Highway is Non-Traditional Security Threat with Too Many ‘Traffic Accidents’, China Tells First Committee, Warning of Security Breaches GA/EF/3315 Appeals for Help for World’s Poorest, Least Developed, Landlocked Countries Are Heard in Assembly’s Economic Committee GA/SHC/4016 Under Prolonged Israeli Occupation, Children’s Development ‘Deformed by Pervasive Deprivations’ Affecting Health, Education, Security, UN Expert Tells Committee GA/SPD/488 Delegations in Fourth Committee Herald United Nations as ‘Only Credible Advocate’ for Peaceful World, Forward Two Drafts on Information to General Assembly 19 October, 2011 GA/11159 General Assembly Takes Up 2011 Report on the Work of Economic and Social Council GA/DIS/3441 World’s Weapons Stockpile ‘Over-Supplied’, as States Reshape True Aim of Charter-based Article on Self-Defence, First Committee Told GA/EF/3314 Weighing Pros, Cons of Globalization, Second Committee Delegates Caution Growth in Global Trade, Interdependence, Could Exacerbate Inequalities GA/SHC/4015 Protest Movements in Middle East, North Africa Reaffirm Reach of Human Rights Even Where Repression ‘Once Seemed Immutable’, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/487 Some Speakers in Fourth Committee Praise New Media for ‘Direct Access to Emotional Part of Public Opinion’, Others Caution Over-Reliance, during Information Debate 18 October, 2011 GA/DIS/3440 Stockpiled Instruments of Modern Violence — Conventional Weapons — Focus of Debate in First Committee, as Delegates Rally Support around Key Draft Resolutions GA/L/3418 Legal Committee Delegates Discuss Most Effective Ways to Ensure Good Stewardship of World’s Cross-Border Aquifers GA/SHC/4014 Special Rapporteur on Torture Tells Third Committee Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement on Rise, Calls for Global Ban on Practice GA/SPD/486 Highlighting Efforts to Expand Use of Traditional, New Media, Communications Chief Says Information Department Aims for Agility, Flexibility, Innovation 17 October, 2011 GA/11158 Record Number of Delegations in General Assembly Back Resolution on Building Peaceful, Better World ‘Through Sport and the Olympic Ideal’ GA/AB/4004 Budget Committee Examines Measures Aimed at Streamlining Organization’s Human Resources Management, Bolster Ethics Bodies GA/DIS/3439 First Committee Hears Introduction of Eight Drafts on Range of Topics, from Threat of Outer Space Arms Race to Terrorist Acquisition of Mass Destruction Weapons GA/EF/3313 1.5 Billion People Living in Absolute Poverty Makes Its Eradication Humankind’s Most Significant Challenge, Second Committee Told GA/L/3417 Legal Committee Delegates Urge Progress on Measures to Regularize Situation of Stateless Persons; Seen as Human Rights Issue GA/SHC/4013 Special Rapporteur Highlights ‘Negative, Even Catastrophic’ Impact of Extractive Industries on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Third Committee Statement 14 October, 2011 GA/DIS/3438 When It Comes to Non-Proliferation, Arms Limitation, Disarmament Agreements, ‘Rules Must Be Binding, Violations Must Be Punished’, First Committee Told GA/EF/3312 Global Economic Recovery Still ‘Very Vulnerable’ to Shocks, Turbulence, Uncertainty, Say Panellists in Second Committee Briefing GA/L/3416 Legal Committee Lauds Success of United Nations Efforts, Said to Be More Important Than Ever to Promote Understanding of International Law GA/SHC/4012 In Third Committee Member States Detail National Steps to Safeguard, Nurture Children, Call for More Support to ‘The Most Vulnerable of the Vulnerables’ 13 October, 2011 GA/DIS/3437 It Is ‘Bitter Reality’ in Complex, Dangerous World that Possession of Nuclear Weapons by Some Gives Others Excuse to Acquire Them, First Committee Told GA/EF/3311 Global Financial Crisis Should Not Affect Fulfilment of Official Assistance Commitments, Say Speakers in Second Committee GA/PAL/1211 Statement by Bureau of Committee on Exercise of Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People on Situation of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons GA/SHC/4011 Strengthening Global Efforts against Criminal Financing, Money-Laundering, among Issues Addressed, as Third Committee Approves Four Criminal Justice Texts GA/SPD/485 Setting Spacefaring Nations against Non-Spacefaring Ones Rejected in Fourth Committee as Debate Centres on Cooperative, Not Competitive, Use of Space 12 October, 2011 GA/AB/4003 As Budget Committee Considers Reports on Pattern of Conferences, Delegates Weigh Changes in Document Processing; Urge More Efficient Use of Meeting Facilities GA/DIS/3436 ‘Sorry to Report’, Conference on Disarmament Official Tells First Committee, No Key Disarmament, Non-Proliferation Treaties in Pipeline Now GA/EF/3310 Delegates in Second Committee Call Attention to Developing World’s Potential, While Urging Balanced Financing of United Nations Development Activities GA/L/3415 Principle of ‘Universal Jurisdiction’ Again Divides Assembly’s Legal Committee Delegates; Further Guidance Sought from International Law Commission GA/SHC/4010 'Too Many Children Are Being Left Behind' Simply Because They Are Born Female, Have Disabilities, Live in World’s Poorest Places, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/484 Value, Inherent Risks of Space Technology Spotlighted in Fourth Committee, with Emphasis on Equal Access to Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes 11 October, 2011 GA/11157 Marking Tenth Anniversary of New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Delegates in General Assembly Welcome Progress, Pledge Support for African-led Strategy GA/AB/4002 Briefing Budget Committee, Under-Secretary-General for Management Reports Improvement in United Nations Financial Situation GA/DIS/3435 ‘Mantra’ of Nuclear-Armed States that Fissile Material Ban Ripe for Negotiation Follows Dictates of Convenience, Not Security, First Committee Told GA/EF/3309 Need For New Political Commitment to Production, Job Growth Underlined as Panel in Second Committee Discusses Alternative Employment Creation Strategies GA/SHC/4009 With Equal Rights, Empowerment, Women Can Be ‘Agents of Change’ for Sustained Socio-economic Development, Security around World, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/483 Following Recorded Votes, Fourth Committee Forwards Five Draft Resolutions on Decolonization to General Assembly for Adoption 10 October, 2011 GA/DIS/3434 International Community Wise to ‘Take Step Back, Seriously Question Approach as Mindless Arms Race Flourishes Unencumbered’, First Committee Hears GA/EF/3308 Global Economic Deterioration Dispelled ‘Cautious Optimism’ Over External Debt Sustainability, Senior Official Tells Second Committee GA/L/3414 Legal Committee Delegates Voice Concern That Budget Cuts Could Weaken Role of International Trade Law Body at Critical Time GA/SHC/4008 After ‘Remarkable Year’ for Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, Momentum Must Be Turned into Tangible Gains for Women, Girls Everywhere, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/482 Fourth Committee Approves Five Consensus Texts Reaffirming Inalienable Right to Self-Determination and Independence 7 October, 2011 GA/AB/4001 Budget Committee Takes Up Reports of Office for Partnerships, Committee for Programme and Coordination GA/DIS/3433 China Champions New Thinking on Security, Shaped by Mutual Trust, Mutual Benefit, Amid Calls in First Committee for Binding Pledges of Non Use of Nuclear Weapons GA/L/3413 Legal Committee Is Told Procedural Factors Impair Judicial Efforts to Deal with Criminal Misconduct by United Nations Personnel on Missions 6 October, 2011 GA/DIS/3432 Membership in Conference on Disarmament Yields Rights but Also Responsibilities, First Committee Told, as Delegations Make Clear Deadlock Taking Its Toll GA/L/3412 Legal Committee Delegates Review Working Methods of Body Charged with Strengthening Implementation of United Nations Charter GA/SHC/4007 Criminal Groups Trafficking in Drugs, Weapons Can Destabilize Countries, Regions; Combating Them Requires Increased Cooperation, Resources, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/481 With Possibility Looming of Another ‘Lost Decade’ for Decolonization Process, Speakers in Fourth Committee Press for Concrete Actions to End Colonialism 5 October, 2011 DSG/SM/574-GA/L/3411 Addressing General Assembly’s Legal Committee, Deputy Secretary-General Outlines United Nations Framework to Bolster Rule of Law, Transitional Justice GA/AB/4000 Adopting Consensus Text, Budget Committee Ensures Six Countries Maintain Voting Rights in General Assembly, Despite Budget Arrears GA/DIS/3431 Nuclear Proliferation ‘Biggest Danger Facing Our Planet’, Says France, Warning in First Committee Debate ‘More Disarmament Will Not Suffice’ to Stop It GA/EF/3307 Delegates Stress Importance of Multilateral Action for Sustainable Development as Second Committee Concludes General Debate GA/L/3410 Growing Respect for ‘Rule of Law’ Concept Emerging from Conflict Situations Is Noted by Delegates in Assembly’s Legal Committee GA/SHC/4006 World Confronts Complex, ‘Practically Seamless Web’ of Crime, Corruption, Drugs, Which Touches Every Country, Spans Every Region, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/479/Corr. 1 Questions of Western Sahara, Turks and Caicos, Guam, Gibraltar Central to Fourth Committee Debate as United Nations Urged Not to ‘Turn a Blind Eye’ to Hardships GA/SPD/480 Spotlight on Western Sahara in Fourth Committee as More than 30 Petitioners Express Mounting Frustration over Still Outstanding Resolution 4 October, 2011 GA/11156 Citing Dramatically Transformed Geopolitical Landscape, General Assembly Delegates Urge New Strategies to Successfully Tackle Global Challenges GA/AB/3999 Budget Committee Takes Up Annual Reports by Office of Internal Oversight Services, Independent Audit Advisory Committee GA/DIS/3430 Path from Prague ‘Fast and Straight’, but Moving into ‘Uncharted Terrain’, United States Delegate Tells First Committee during General Debate GA/EF/3306 Europe Hardest-Hit in ‘Great Recession’, Second Committee Told as It Holds Dialogue with Heads of United Nations Regional Commissions GA/L/3409 General Assembly’s Legal Committee Is Told Global Convention Needed against Terrorism Since No Country Immune; Final Action Urged GA/SHC/4005 Austerity Measures Adopted by Developed Countries Hurt Global Growth, Push More into Poverty, Just When Greater Social Protection Needed, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/479 Questions of Western Sahara, Turks and Caicos, Guam, Gibraltar Central to Fourth Committee Debate as United Nations Urged Not to ‘Turn a Blind Eye’ to Hardships 3 October, 2011 GA/AB/3998 Budget Committee Takes Up Scale for Assessing Member States' Dues; Speakers Stress Importance of ‘Capacity to Pay’ Principle GA/DIS/3429 First Committee Must Not ‘Close Shop and Wait for World Peace’ before Furthering Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Delegations Told as Debate Opens GA/EF/3305 Under-Secretary-General Calls for More Equitable Development Models as Second Committee Begins General Debate GA/L/3408 Events of 11 September 2001 Noted by General Assembly’s Legal Committee as Framework for Debate on Measures against International Terrorism GA/SHC/4004 As World Struggles with Economic Crisis, ‘Time Bomb’ of Rising Social Inequality Could Tear Apart Moral Fabric of Societies, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/478 ‘No Effort Should Be Spared to Fulfil Dream of All Peoples to Self-Determination’, Fourth Committee Hears as It Opens Annual Debate on Decolonization 30 September, 2011 GA/DIS/3428 First Committee, in Preparation for Start of Annual General Debate Monday, Holds Organizational Meeting to Adopt Agenda, Work Programme for Session GA/PAL/1210 Most in International Community Persuaded to ‘Actualize Endgame of Two-State Solution’, Now up to Security Council, Palestinian Rights Committee Told 29 September, 2011 GA/AB/3997 Fifth Committee Approves Work Programme for Current Session, Which Includes Proposed Programme Budget for 2012-2013 GA/SPD/477 Fourth Committee Approves Work Programme for Sixty-Sixth Session, Setting Dates for Deliberations on Broad Range of Items, From Decolonization to Peacekeeping 27 September, 2011 GA/11155 Closing ‘Historic and Unforgettable’ Annual Debate, General Assembly President Says Time to Shift Gears to Crucial Next Step, ‘Turn Talk into Real Impact’ 26 September, 2011 GA/11154 General Assembly Debate Considers Global Development at Crossroads, as Least Developed Countries Buckle under Strain of Meeting Most Basic Needs 24 September, 2011 GA/11153 Examination of Mediation versus Military Intervention to Assist Regions Wracked by Conflict Focus of General Assembly Debate as It Enters Fourth Day 23 September, 2011 GA/11152 Palestinian Authority President Outlines Application for United Nations Membership as Heads of State, Government Address General Assembly 22 September, 2011 GA/11149 General Assembly Adopts Declaration Intended to Mobilize Political Support for Ending All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Related Intolerance GA/11151 In Year of Clarion Calls for Reform in Middle East, North Africa, World Leaders in General Assembly Urged ‘Not to Lose Our Nerve’ in Supporting New Freedoms SG/SM/13829-GA/11150-RD/1007 Resurgence of Intolerance Indicates Not Enough Done ‘To Stem the Tide’, Says Secretary-General, Appealing to All to Work in Harmony to Promote Harmony 21 September, 2011 GA/11147 Secretary-General, Opening Annual General Debate, Urges World Leaders to Tackle Global Challenges Decisively for Sake of Future Generations SG/SM/13823-GA/11148 Secretary-General, Introducing Report in General Assembly, Outlines ‘Generational Opportunities’ to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Today’s Decisions 20 September, 2011 GA/11143 Dryland Management Must Be Placed Higher on International Agenda, Stresses Secretary-General at High-level General Assembly Event on Desertification GA/11145 Global Response against Non-communicable Diseases Must Be Urgent, Comprehensive, Fully Coordinated, Say Speakers at Final Round-table Discussion GA/11146 As High-level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases Concludes, New York City’s Mayor Says ‘We Are in Race with Time We Cannot Afford to Lose’ SG/SM/13815-GA/11144-ENV/DEV/1229 Preserving Drylands, Nurturing Dependant Communities Lie at Core of Sustainable Development, Secretary-General Tells High-Level General Assembly Meeting 19 September, 2011 GA/11138 Non-Communicable Diseases Deemed Development Challenge of ‘Epidemic Proportions’ in Political Declaration Adopted During Landmark General Assembly Summit GA/11140 Non-communicable Diseases Pose Rapidly Growing Threat to Socio-economic Development in World’s Poorest Countries, Round Table Discussion Told GA/11141 International Cooperation to Boost National Prevention Capacities in Fighting Non-communicable Diseases Stressed during Round Table Discussion GA/11142-ENV/DEV/1228 General Assembly High-Level Meeting on 20 September Will Focus on Actions to Reverse Increasing Loss of Productive Lands in World’s Dry Regions SG/SM/13806-GA/11139 Secretary-General, at High-level General Assembly Event, Urges Concerted Government, Business, Civic Campaign against Non-communicable Diseases 16 September, 2011 GA/11137 After Much Wrangling, General Assembly Seats National Transitional Council of Libya as Country’s Representative for Sixty-Sixth Session GA/DIS/3427 First Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Sixth General Assembly Session GA/EF/3304 Second Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Sixth General Assembly Session GA/SHC/4003 Third Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Sixth General Assembly Session 14 September, 2011 BIO/4319-GA/DIS/3426 Jarmo Viinanen of Finland Chair of First Committee BIO/4320-GA/EF/3303 Abulkalam Abdul Momen of Bangladesh Chair of Second Committee BIO/4321-GA/SHC/4002 Haniff Hussein of Malaysia Chair of Third Committee BIO/4322-GA/SPD/476 Simona-Mirela Miculescu of Romania Chair of Fourth Committee BIO/4323-GA/AB/3996 Tommo Monthe of Cameroon Chair of Fifth Committee BIO/4324-GA/L/3407 Hernán Salinas Burgos of Chile Chair of Sixth Committee 13 September, 2011 BIO/4314-GA/11135 Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar President of Sixty-Sixth General Assembly GA/11134 'The Sands Are Shifting,' Says New General Assembly President, Opening Sixty-Sixth Session with Call to Action on United Nations to ‘Rethink’ Way It Does Business SG/SM/13794-GA/COL/3228 Secretary-General Says Member States Determine List of Non-Self Governing Territories SG/SM/13797-GA/11136 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Pledges to Carry on Work of United Nations That Late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld Died Defending 12 September, 2011 GA/11131 ‘We Have No Right to Remain Indifferent’ in Face of Precarious Situations, General Assembly President Says upon Conclusion of Sixty-fifth Session SG/SM/13788-GA/11132 Secretary-General, in Tribute to President of Fifty-fifth General Assembly, Hails Fallen Finnish Statesman’s ‘Great Leadership’ SG/SM/13789-GA/11133 Secretary-General Praises Outgoing President’s Role in Highlighting Relevance of General Assembly as ‘Chief Deliberative and Representative Body’ 9 September, 2011 DSG/SM/572-GA/11130 Deputy Secretary-General, at Commemoration, Says Attacks of 11 September 2001 Targeted Universal Values That United Nations Was Created to Defend GA/11129 General Assembly President, at Commemoration of 11 September 2001 Attacks, Urges Member States to Work for Convention on Terrorism during Upcoming Session GA/AB/3995 Fifth Committee Elects Rest of Bureau for Sixty-sixth General Assembly Session GA/SPD/475 Fourth Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-sixth General Assembly Session 2 September, 2011 GA/11128-OBV/1023 Legal Prohibition Only Way to Realize World Free of Nuclear Testing, Weapons, Deputy Secretary-General Says during Observance of International Day 19 August, 2011 GA/PAL/1209 Statement by Bureau of Committee on Exercise of Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People on Upsurge in Israeli Settlement Activity 12 August, 2011 GA/11127-RD/1006 General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Combating Racism, Intolerance to Be Held at Headquarters on 22 September 29 July, 2011 GA/11126 General Assembly Wraps Up Two Meetings — on Achieving Human Right to Water and Sanitation; Revitalizing Conference on Disarmament 28 July, 2011 GA/11125 General Assembly Strives to Chart Way Out of Paralysis Gripping Conference on Disarmament, Stoking Divergent Views on Taking Negotiations Elsewhere 27 July, 2011 GA/11120 Pressure Mounts to Break Deadlock in Conference on Disarmament, as General Assembly Debates Ways to Jump-start Negotiations on Core Security Concerns GA/11123 Against Backdrop of Drought-Driven Emergency in Horn of Africa, General Assembly Examines Vital Human Right to Safe Drinking Water, Adequate Sanitation GA/PAL/1208 With State-building Programme Complete, Time Is Ripe for Palestinian Statehood, United Nations Membership, Permanent Observer Tells Committee SG/SM/13723-GA/11121-DC/3299 Secretary-General Cites ‘Growing Crisis of Confidence’ in Remarks to General Assembly Follow-Up to 2010 High-Level Multilateral Disarmament Meeting SG/SM/13724-GA/11122-SOC/4781 No Pursuit Greater, No Calling More Noble than Advancing Human Well-being, Global Common Good, Secretary-General Says at Side Event of High-level Meeting on Youth SG/SM/13726-GA/11124-ENV/DEV/1225 Progress ‘Can Be Ours’ in Achieving Goals for Water, Sanitation, Stability, Prosperity, Peace ‘If We Work Together’, Says Secretary-General 26 July, 2011 GA/11119 Crowning High-Level Meeting of General Assembly on Youth, Outcome Document Urges Decisive Action to Overcome Young People’s Widespread Unemployment 25 July, 2011 GA/11117 At Summit Meeting Coined by Youth Representative as ‘International Tahrir Square’, Secretary-General Says Failure to Invest in Young People ‘A False Economy’ SG/SM/13719-GA/11118-SOC/4780 Failure to Invest in Young People ‘a False Economy’, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Youth 19 July, 2011 GA/11116 Adopting Resolution on Multilingualism, General Assembly Emphasizes Importance of Equality among Six Official United Nations Languages 14 July, 2011 GA/11114 When South Sudan Started Its Journey, Says Its Representative upon Country’s Admission to United Nations, It Could Hardly Imagine Road Would Lead Here SG/SM/13703-GA/11115-ORG/1545 On South Sudan’s Admission to United Nations, Secretary-General Says ‘You Now Sit with Us; We Stand with You’ 12 July, 2011 GA/11112 ‘For Those Facing Mass Rape and Violence, the Slow Pace of Global Deliberations Offers No Relief’, Secretary-General Cautions in General Assembly Debate SG/SM/13700-GA/11113 History of Atrocity Crimes Is Not One of Acting Too Boldly, But of Doing Too Little, Too Late, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly 1 July, 2011 GA/11110 General Assembly, Acting on Recommendation of Its Fifth Committee, Adopts Peacekeeping Budget of More than $7 Billion for 2011-2012 GA/11111 General Assembly, Adopting Text on Bolstering Effectiveness of Military, Civil Assets in Disaster Response, Reaffirms Principles of Neutrality, Independence GA/AB/3994 Following Days of ‘Very Difficult and Sometimes Unorthodox’ Negotiations, Fifth Committee Approves Budgets for 13 United Nations Peacekeeping Operations 30 June, 2011 GA/SPD/474 Fourth Committee Approves Draft Resolution Recommending That General Assembly Review Implementation of Peacekeeping Proposals by Subsidiary Body 29 June, 2011 GA/11109 General Assembly Resolution Stresses Need to Ensure that ‘Graduation’ from List of Least Developed Countries Does Not Disrupt Development Progress GA/PAL/1207 International Meeting on Middle East Appeals to Europe to Back Palestine Recognition Bid SG/SM/13675-GA/PAL/1206 International Community Must Help Bring Parties Back to Talks, Secretary-General Tells Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace 28 June, 2011 GA/11107 Secretary-General Tells General Assembly “While We Are All in the Same Boat, Not All Have a Say in How to Steer It,’ in Debate on UN in Global Governance GA/PAL/1204 With Deadlines Looming, Secretary-General Calls on International Community to Help Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations GA/PAL/1205 Future of Two-State Solution, Arab Peace Initiative, Quartet Road Map Examined at Brussels Meeting SG/SM/13674-GA/11108-ECO/195 ‘Global Economic Governance Need Not Be a Zero-Sum Game’, If Best Use Made of Each Actor’s Comparative Advantages, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly 24 June, 2011 GA/COL/3227 Special Committee on Decolonization Concludes Session with Approval of Draft Resolution on Tokelau, Another Containing Report on Organizational Matters 23 June, 2011 GA/COL/3226 Omnibus Draft Resolution on Non-Self-Governing Territories Approved by Consensus in Special Committee on Decolonization, amid Proposals to Treat Cases Separately GA/PAL/1203 United Nations Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process to Convene in Brussels, 28-29 June 22 June, 2011 GA/11104 General Assembly Adopts Text Inviting Member States to Make Most of Mediation in Peacefully Settling Disputes, Preventing or Resolving Conflict GA/11105 Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar Elected President of General Assembly’s Sixty-Sixth Session; Vice-Presidents, Main Committee Chairs Also Named SG/SM/13663-GA/11106 Secretary-General Tells General Assembly President-elect ‘You Have Already Made a Significant Contribution; You Will Do Even More as Leader of Most Universal Body’ 21 June, 2011 GA/11102 General Assembly Appoints Secretary-General Ban Ki–moon to Second Term of Office; Ban: ‘Together, No Challenge Is Too Large — Together, Nothing Is Impossible’ GA/COL/3225 Special Committee on Decolonization Adopts Draft on Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Requesting Argentina, United Kingdom to Resume Talks as Soon as Possible SG/SM/13661-GA/11103 Secretary-General Tells General Assembly ‘It Has Been a Great Privilege to Serve; That You Should Ask Me to Serve Once Again Makes It All the Greater’ 20 June, 2011 GA/COL/3224 Special Committee on Decolonization Calls on United States, in Consensus Text, to Speed up Process Allowing Puerto Rico to Exercise Self-Determination GA/PAL/1202 Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Agenda for 28-29 June Brussels Meeting Aimed at Advancing Palestinian Statehood, Middle East Peace Process 17 June, 2011 GA/11101 Five Years after Creation, General Assembly Maintains Human Rights Council as Subsidiary Body, Concluding Review of Work, Functioning 16 June, 2011 DSG/SM/561-GA/11100 Deputy Secretary-General, at Informal Civil Society Hearing, Stresses Importance of Ending Myth That Non-communicable Diseases Target Affluent People 15 June, 2011 GA/11099 General Assembly Adds Item on Appointment of Secretary-General to Current Agenda 14 June, 2011 DSG/SM/560-GA/11098-DEV/2900 ‘Not a Moment to Lose,’ Warns Deputy Secretary-General at General Assembly’s Development Dialogue, as 2015 Nears Amid ‘Vast Backlog of Deprivation’ GA/11097 ‘Think Big’ in Launching Final Push to Meet Millennium Development Goals, Plan Post-2015 Strategies, Says General Assembly President in Development Dialogue 13 June, 2011 GA/11096 General Assembly Calls for Intensified Effort towards Goal of ‘Conflict-Free Africa’, Continued Assistance to Address Challenges Hampering Peace, Sustainable Development GA/COL/3223 Special Committee on Decolonization, Resuming 2011 Session, Considers Gibraltar, Western Sahara Disputes, Approves Three Drafts on Non-Self-Governing Territories 10 June, 2011 GA/11093 Adoption of Political Declaration Promises ‘Bold and Decisive Action’ to Wipe Out What Remains of Global Human Tragedy of HIV/AIDS, as High-Level Meeting Concludes GA/11094 Nobel Laureate Leads Strong Calls for Integrating Global Response into Broader Health Agendas, as Panel Discusses Taking AIDS Out of Isolation SG/SM/13632-GA/11095-AIDS/174 Secretary-General Welcomes General Assembly’s Adoption of HIV/AIDS Declaration, Says ‘With Global Solidarity, We Can End This Epidemic Once and for All’ 9 June, 2011 GA/11090 Speakers Call for ‘Prevention Revolution’, Mainstreaming of Anti-AIDS Programmes into National Health Systems as General Assembly’s High-level Meeting Continues GA/11091 Innovative HIV/AIDS Drugs, Treatments Must Be Urgently Developed, Made Readily Available Worldwide to Those Who Need Them Most, Panel Told GA/11092 As Women, Girls Bear Disproportionate Burden of HIV/AIDS Epidemic, No Gains Will Be Made Without Gender Equality, Ending Violence against Women, Panel Told 8 June, 2011 GA/11086 30 Years Ago AIDS Was Deadly, Spreading Fast; Today ‘We Have a Chance to End This Epidemic Once and For All,’ Says Secretary General, as High-level Meeting Opens GA/11087 Real Story of AIDS Is ‘On the Streets’, Where Shared Response Should Champion Robust National Health Systems, Broader Social Development, Panel Told GA/11089 Towards Zero New Infections Means Taking HIV/AIDS ‘Out of the Shadows’, Panel Hears as It Grapples with Ways to Defeat Epidemic Far Outpacing Preventive Measures SG/SM/13626-GA/11088-AIDS/169 Secretary-General, at General Assembly High-Level Meeting, Spells out Five Steps towards World Free of AIDS, While Urging Bold Action on ‘Sensitive Issues’ 3 June, 2011 GA/COL/3222 Caribbean Regional Seminar Wraps Up Meeting amid Renewed Vigour to Fulfil Aim of United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization 2 June, 2011 DSG/SM/556-GA/11085-ENV/DEV/221 Gaps in Sustainable Development Gains Exacerbate Other Serious Challenges, Deputy Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Debate on ‘Green Economy’ GA/11084 ‘Greening’ World’s Economies Debated as Viable Pathway to Development Destination, as General Assembly Considers Shortcomings of Prevailing Growth Models GA/COL/3221 Discussion in Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization Focuses on Goals, Accomplishments of Non-Self-Governing Territories, United Nations System 1 June, 2011 GA/11083-ENV/DEV/1219 United Nations General Assembly to Debate Green Economy, Key Theme for Rio+20 GA/COL/3220 Secretary-General, in Message to Caribbean Regional Seminar, Galvanizes Efforts for Successful Third International Decade to Eradicate Colonialism 31 May, 2011 SG/SM/13607-GA/COL/3219 Secretary-General, in Message to Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization, Urges ‘Action-oriented Dialogue at All Levels’ 26 May, 2011 GA/AB/3993 Fifth Committee Hears Introduction of Draft Resolution on Financing United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) GA/COL/3218 Special Committee on Decolonization to Hold Regional Seminar on Eradication of Colonialism, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 31 May - 2 June 23 May, 2011 GA/AB/3992 Fifth Committee Considers Financing Needs of Special Political Missions, Revisions in Reimbursement for Troop-Contributing Countries 20 May, 2011 GA/11082 In Single Secret Ballot, General Assembly Elects 15 Member States to Serve Three-year Terms on Human Rights Council 19 May, 2011 GA/11080 Secretary-General Says Migrants ‘Best and Brightest’ in Some Countries, Issues Call in General Assembly to ‘Harness Their Unstoppable Force’ GA/AB/3991 As Fifth Committee Takes up United Nations Financial Situation, Delegations Stress Importance of Meeting All Budget Obligations in Full, on Time SG/SM/13581-GA/11081-DEV/2897 With Intelligent Approach Focused on Positive, Unstoppable Force of Migration Can Be Harnessed for Greater Good, Secretary-General Tells Informal Thematic Debate 13 May, 2011 GA/AB/3990 Fifth Committee Takes Up Financing for Peacekeeping Missions in Haiti, Sudan, Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Support for African Union Mission in Somalia 12 May, 2011 GA/AB/3989 Under-Secretary-General for Management Briefs Budget Committee; Says Overall United Nations Financial Situation Improved 10 May, 2011 GA/AB/3988 Budget Committee Takes Up Third Report on Restructuring of Peacekeeping Operations; Financing Proposals for Support Account for Peacekeeping, Brindisi Logistics Base 9 May, 2011 GA/PK/208 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations Condemns Killings of United Nations Peacekeepers, Approving Draft Report as 2011 Session Concludes 5 May, 2011 GA/AB/3987 Fifth Committee Considers Financing for 13 Peacekeeping Missions, Hears Proposals for Disposition of Unspent Funds, Deficits from 23 Closed Operations 3 May, 2011 GA/11079/Rev. 1 General Assembly, in Recorded Vote, Adopts Resolution Granting European Union Right of Reply, Ability to Present Oral Amendments GA/AB/3986 As United Nations Peacekeeping Portfolio Continues to Grow, Speakers in Fifth Committee Welcome Efforts to ‘Do More with Less’ 2 May, 2011 GA/AB/3985 In Resumed Session, Budget Committee Reviews Funding for Peacekeeping Operations, Underlining Need to Sustain Adequate, Efficient, Accountable Support 29 April, 2011 GA/PAL/1200 Experts Consider Practical Aspects of Building Viable Palestinian State, Urge Sound Social, Economic Policies, as United Nations Meeting Continues GA/PAL/1201 Palestinian Rights Committee Chair Urges Quartet to ‘Help Sun Set on Occupation’, Finalize Permanent Status Parameters, So Peace Talks Can Proceed without Delay 28 April, 2011 GA/PAL/1197 With Palestinian Authority’s Plan for Statehood Nearly Complete, Secretary-General Says ‘Time Is of the Essence’, Calls for Speedy Resumption of Peace Negotiations GA/PAL/1198 United Nations Seminar in Helsinki Weighs Achievements, Challenges of Palestinian State-building Programme SG/SM/13531-GA/PAL/1199 Secretary-General Calls on Israel to Match Palestinian State-building Gains by Rolling Back Occupation, Facilitating Economic, Institutional Progress 26 April, 2011 GA/11077 As General Assembly Marks Chernobyl Disaster’s 25th Anniversary, Secretary-General Says ‘We Must Treat Nuclear Safety as Seriously as We Treat Nuclear Weapons’ SG/SM/13528-GA/11078 Secretary-General Says Chernobyl Anniversary Time for Global Action to Ensure Nuclear Power Plants ‘Sources of Peaceful Energy — Not Potential Catastrophe’ 25 April, 2011 GA/PAL/1196 United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People Set for Helsinki, 28-29 April 20 April, 2011 DSG/SM/548-GA/11076-ENV/DEV/1204 World Running Short of Time to Improve Relationship with Mother Earth, Deputy Secretary-General Cautions at Event on Harmony with Nature GA/11075 Not Too Late to Change Unsustainable Economic Growth Model, Improve Relationship with Mother Earth, but ‘Time Is Running Short,’ General Assembly Told 19 April, 2011 GA/PAL/1195 Palestinians Ready, Would Prefer to Reach Peace Treaty with Israel by September, Paving Way for Independence, UN Membership, Palestinian Rights Committee Told 18 April, 2011 GA/11074 General Assembly, Noting Grave Financial Situation of UN Palestine Relief Agency, Calls for Institutional Strengthening Through UN Regular Budget Financing 14 April, 2011 DSG/SM/547-GA/11073 As UN Responds to Events Reflected in Daily Headlines, Expanded Concept of Security Needed for Wide Range of Threats, Says Deputy Secretary General to General Assembly GA/11072 In World of Unpredictable Threats, Expanded Concept of Security Needed to Encompass Broad Range of Conditions Endangering Survival, Dignity, General Assembly Told 12 April, 2011 DSG/SM/546-GA/11071-L/3173 Rule of Law Critical in Preventing Conflict, Providing Platform for Sustainable Economic Development, Deputy Secretary-General Tells General Assembly 11 April, 2011 GA/11069 Rule of Law Represents ‘Best Hope for Building Peaceful, Prosperous Societies’, Says Secretary-General as General Assembly Holds Thematic Debate SG/SM/13505-GA/11070-L/3171 Fundamental Principle of Rule of Law ‘Our Best Hope for Building Peaceful, Prosperous Societies’, Says Secretary-General, in General Assembly Debate 8 April, 2011 GA/11067 Energy, Activism of Civil Society Crucial to Global Progress against HIV/AIDS, Speakers Say, as General Assembly Holds Hearings Ahead of High-Level Meeting SG/SM/13502-GA/11068-AIDS/167 Secretary-General Says 2011 ‘Moment of Truth’ in Global HIV/AIDS Response, Praises Energy, Activism of Civil Society in Effort, at General Assembly Hearing 7 April, 2011 GA/11066 General Assembly Declares 12 April International Day of Human Space Flight; First Annual Celebration Marks Fiftieth Anniversary of Russian Space Shot 4 April, 2011 GA/11065 General Assembly Endorses Recommendations from First Report of Ad Hoc Working Group on Regular Process for Reporting, Assessing State of Marine Environment 1 April, 2011 GA/11064 Weeks Away from Development Conference in Istanbul, General Assembly Holds Hearing with Civil Society to Explore Ways to ‘Wipe Away Curse of Being Least Developed’ GA/PAL/1194 United Nations Meeting of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Focuses on Latin America’s Role in Resolving Bilateral Conflict 31 March, 2011 GA/PAL/1193 United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Concludes in Montevideo, Uruguay 30 March, 2011 GA/PAL/1192 United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Continues in Montevideo, Uruguay 29 March, 2011 GA/PAL/1191 United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Opens in Montevideo, Uruguay SG/SM/13484-GA/PAL/1190 Standoff in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Untenable, Especially When Many in Region Pursuing Freedom through Non-violence, Says Secretary-General in Message 28 March, 2011 GA/11061 In General Assembly, Italy’s President Says Nobody Likes Instability at Doorstep, Urging Staunch European Support of Mediterranean Partners’ Quest for Renewal GA/11063 General Assembly Considers Evolving Partnership between United Nations, African Union under 10-Year Capacity-Building Programme SG/SM/13480-GA/11062 Introducing Italy’s President to General Assembly, Secretary-General Thanks Him for His Leadership, Encourages His Greater Engagement in International Arena 25 March, 2011 GA/11059 By Honouring Victims of Slavery, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly, Some Measure of Dignity Restored to Those ‘Mercilessly Stripped of It’ GA/AB/3984 Budget Committee Approves Texts on Financing for Burundi Political Office, Capital Master Plan, Joint Inspection Unit, Concludes First Part of Resumed Session SG/SM/13477-GA/11060-OBV/975 On International Day against Slavery, Secretary-General Remembers Human Beings at Their Best, Rising Up Despite Mortal Risk, Challenging Status Quo 24 March, 2011 GA/SPD/473 Request for United Nations Regular Budget Support of Palestine Refugee Agency Receives Broad Backing, as Fourth Committee Text Heads to General Assembly 23 March, 2011 GA/PAL/1189 Uruguayan Capital to Host United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 29-30 March 21 March, 2011 GA/11058 General Assembly Reviews Performance of United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, with National Ownership Emerging as Cornerstone of Effective Partnership 17 March, 2011 GA/PAL/1188 Palestinian Rights Committee Reviews Political Developments, Including Intention of Palestinian Leader to Form Unity Government, Hold Elections Within Six Months 16 March, 2011 DSG/SM/543-GA/11057-ENV/DEV/1202 Changing Direction Can Create New Risks, but Greatest Risk Is Leaving Challenges Unattended, Opportunities Unrealized, Says Deputy Secretary-General GA/11056 International Community Challenged to Construct Contemporary Model to Build Resilient Future, in Meeting with High-level Global Sustainability Panel 15 March, 2011 GA/11055 General Assembly Decides to Convene High-Level Meeting on Youth 25-26 July, as Delegations Encourage Young People’s Transparent, Adequate Participation 14 March, 2011 GA/AB/3983 Budget Committee Takes Up Proposed Financing for United Nations Burundi Office, Representative on International Advisory and Monitoring Board 11 March, 2011 GA/11053 Secretary-General Calls for ‘Concrete Plan’ to Improve Plight of Most Vulnerable, as General Assembly Holds Debate on Least Developed Countries SG/SM/13438-GA/11054-DEV/2862 Secretary-General Stresses Importance of Diversification, Agriculture, Trade at General Assembly Debate on Investment in Least Developed Countries 8 March, 2011 GA/AB/3982 Nearly Three Years since Groundbreaking, Plan to Renovate United Nations Headquarters on Track for Completion within Reach of Approved Budget, Fifth Committee Told GA/PAL/1186 Applicability of International Law to Palestinians in Occupied Territory Reaffirmed at International Meeting in Vienna GA/PAL/1187 United Nations International Meeting on Question of Palestine, in Outcome Text, Stresses Need to ‘Internationalize’ Issue of Palestinian Political Prisoners 7 March, 2011 GA/11052 General Assembly, Adopting Resolution, Revises Election Scheme for World Food Programme Executive Board GA/AB/3981 Budget Committee Approves Work Plan for Three-Week Resumed Session; Capital Master Plan, Joint Inspection Unit Report among Issues GA/PAL/1183 As Bold Changes Sweep Middle East, Secretary-General Calls for Release of Palestinian Political Prisoners, as UN Meeting Opens in Vienna GA/PAL/1185 Israeli Security Pretext for Arbitrary Detentions of Palestinian Political Prisoners, United Nations Meeting on Question of Palestine Told SG/SM/13430-GA/PAL/1184 Secretary-General Reiterates Concern, Urges Release of Palestinian Prisoners Being Held In Israeli Detention Centres, in Message to Meeting on Question of Palestine 1 March, 2011 GA/11050 General Assembly Suspends Libya from Human Rights Council GA/PAL/1182 United Nations International Meeting on Question of Palestine to Consider Urgency of Addressing Plight of Palestinian Political Prisoners, in Vienna, 7-8 March SG/SM/13425-GA/11051-AFR/2130 United Nations Response to Violence against Civilians in Libya Sends Strong Message There Is 'No Impunity’ for Crimes against Humanity, Secretary-General Says 24 February, 2011 GA/COL/3215 Secretary-General Urges ‘Concrete Results’ in Quest for Self-Determination as Special Committee on Decolonization Opens 2011 Session SG/SM/13412-GA/COL/3216 Completing Decolonization Process Will Require Concerted Efforts of All Concerned, Secretary-General Tells Special Committee 23 February, 2011 GA/PK/207 Delegates Stress Need to Correct Imbalance in ‘Division of Labour’ as Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations Concludes General Debate 22 February, 2011 GA/PK/206 Under-Secretary-General Tells of Aim to Build on 2010 Efforts in Bolstering United Nations Peacekeeping Capabilities 9 February, 2011 GA/11048 Top United Nations Officials Stress Need to Invest in Advance Planning, Sound Prevention as General Assembly Holds First Debate on Reducing Disaster Risk SG/SM/13395-GA/11049 Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Disaster Risk Reduction Event of 2011 Focus on Small Island States, Least Developed Countries 28 January, 2011 GA/11047 General Assembly Seeks to Boost Global Cooperation, from Relief to Development, to Aid States, United Nations with Humanitarian Fallout from Natural Disasters 21 January, 2011 GA/PAL/1180 Secretary-General, in Palestinian Rights Committee, Says Israeli Settlements Illegal, Hamper Efforts to Re-launch Negotiations, Prejudge Their Outcome SG/SM/13359-GA/PAL/1181 Secretary-General Tells Palestinian Committee There Is No Place for Irresponsible Rhetoric Questioning Israel’s Right to Security, Palestinians’ Right to Statehood 17 January, 2011 GA/PAL/1179 Alarmed by Surging Construction Activity, Palestinian Rights Committee Supports Call for Israel to Choose between Peace, Settlements 14 January, 2011 GA/11046 Meeting for the First Time This Year, General Assembly Takes Action on Cooperation with Francophonie Organization; Facilitating Work of Rwanda, Yugoslavia Tribunals 28 December, 2010 GA/11045 General Assembly President Urges Member States to Chart Course That Will Enhance Role of United Nations in Global Governance SG/SM/13331-AFR/2086-GA/11044 Secretary-General Welcomes General Assembly’s Decision to Accept Credentials of Côte d’Ivoire Representatives 23 December, 2010 GA/11043 As General Assembly Concludes Main Part of Sixty-Fifth Session, President Hails ‘Constructive and Cooperative Spirit’ GA/AB/3980 Harmonizing Staff Working Conditions, Strengthening UN Information Technology among Issues, as Budget Committee Approves 18 Texts, Concludes Session 22 December, 2010 GA/11042 General Assembly, Edging towards Year’s End, Acts on Outstanding Items, Filling Seats on Peacebuilding Commission, Mapping Population, Development Follow-Up 21 December, 2010 GA/11041 General Assembly Adopts 52 Resolutions, 6 Decisions Recommended by Third Committee on Broad Range of Human Rights, Social, Cultural Issues 20 December, 2010 GA/11040 General Assembly Adopts Landmark Texts on Protecting Coral Reefs, Mitigating Ill Effects of Chemical Munitions Dumped at Sea 17 December, 2010 GA/AB/3979 Fifth Committee Takes Up Budget Implications of September 2011 High-Level General Assembly Meeting on Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases 16 December, 2010 GA/11039 General Assembly Reaffirms Strong, Ongoing Support for Kimberley Process Targeting Global Trade in ‘Blood Diamonds’, by One of Four Resolutions GA/AB/3978 Budget Committee Approves Consensus Text on United Nations Pension Fund, Takes Up Revised Financing for Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia Tribunals 15 December, 2010 GA/11038 Surge in Demand for Humanitarian Assistance in High-Risk Environments Informs General Assembly Debate on Strengthening UN Disaster Relief Assistance GA/AB/3977 Fifth Committee Takes Up $676 Million Proposal to Finance 29 Political Missions in 2011, as well as Budget Outline for 2012-2013 Biennium 14 December, 2010 GA/11037 Decolonization ‘Remarkable but Incomplete’ Chapter in United Nations History, Says Secretary-General, Spurring Action at Commemoration of Decolonization Declaration SG/SM/13317-GA/COL/3214 Secretary General, at Meeting Marking Decolonization Declaration’s 50th Anniversary, Says ‘Decolonization Re-made the World – in Our Minds and on the Ground’ 13 December, 2010 GA/11036 General Assembly Adopts 10 Resolutions Aimed at Shoring up Shared Response of United Nations, Regional Organizations to Complex Global Challenges GA/AB/3976 Fifth Committee Takes Up First Performance Report for 2010-2011 Budget Cycle, Increased Regular Budget Funding for Sierra Leone Tribunal 10 December, 2010 GA/11035 General Assembly Adopts 28 Fourth Committee Texts on Effects of Israeli Practices, Decolonization, Outer Space, Atomic Radiation, UN Public Outreach, Peacekeeping 9 December, 2010 GA/11034 General Assembly Adopts Consensus Text on ‘Global Health and Foreign Policy’, Acknowledging Need to Make World Health-Care System More Coherent, Effective GA/AB/3975 Budget Committee Takes Up Request for Assessment, Temporary Increase in Civilian Staff for United Nations Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo 8 December, 2010 GA/11033 General Assembly Notes New Strategic Relationship between Russian Federation, United States, Their Endeavour to Reduce Role, Importance Of Nuclear Weapons 7 December, 2010 GA/11031 General Assembly Concludes Annual Debate on Law of the Sea Adopting Two Texts Bolstering United Nations Regime Governing Ocean Space, Its Resources, Uses GA/11032-PAL/2138 United Nations Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees Holds Pledging Conference, with Speakers Warning Financial Situation Precarious, Structural 6 December, 2010 GA/11029 Highlighting Urgency of Revitalization, Delegates Say General Assembly’s Status as Most Representative Policymaking Body Must Be Respected ‘in Letter, Spirit’ GA/11030 General Assembly, on Recommendation of Legal Committee, Adopts Texts on Measures to Eliminate Global Terrorism, Programme of International Legal Assistance GA/AB/3974 Fifth Committee Takes Up Budget Proposal for New United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women) 3 December, 2010 SG/SM/13294-GA/11028-IHA/1290 Collective Efforts in Haiti Will Be Overwhelmed without Massive, Immediate Response, Secretary-General Warns in Remarks to General Assembly 2 December, 2010 GA/AB/3973 Fifth Committee Begins Discussion of Proposed Budget for UN Mission in Haiti for Period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 1 December, 2010 GA/EF/3302 Second Committee Approves Draft Resolution Stressing Need to Boost Food Production, Productivity, Sustainability as It Concludes Work 30 November, 2010 GA/11027 General Assembly Concludes Two-Day Debate, Adopting Six Resolutions on Question of Palestine, Situation in Middle East GA/EF/3301 Second Committee Approves Text Recommending That General Assembly Stress Importance of Responsible Borrowing, Lending 29 November, 2010 GA/11026 Israel Appears Unable, Unwilling to Shake Occupier Mentality, Palestinian Observer Tells General Assembly, Calling for Serious Commitment to Two-State Solution GA/AB/3972 Budget Committee Takes Up Progress Reports on Enterprise Resource Planning Project — ‘Umoja’; Information and Communications Technology Strategy GA/PAL/1178 Coming Year Should Finally See Peace in the Middle East, Despite Impasse, Says Secretary-General on International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People 26 November, 2010 GA/PAL/1177-OBV/942 Observance of International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, 29 November 24 November, 2010 GA/EF/3300 Second Committee Approves Text Encouraging Member States to Strive for Balanced, Ambitious Outcome as Cancún Conference on Climate Change Approaches 23 November, 2010 GA/11025 With Non-Communicable Diseases Rapidly Becoming Serious Public Health Threats General Assembly Delegates Urge More Attention to Socio-Economic Impacts GA/PAL/1176 Palestinian Rights Committee Elects New Chairman, Approves Work Programme for Upcoming United Nations International Meeting GA/SHC/4001 Third Committee Approves Eight More Draft Resolutions as Current Session Concludes; Durban Commemorative Meeting, Regulating Private Security Companies among Issues 22 November, 2010 GA/EF/3299 Second Committee Approves Draft Resolution Stressing Need for New Impetus in Talks on Reforming International Financial System GA/SHC/4000 Third Committee Approves Text to Ensure Human Rights Protected in Anti-Terrorism Efforts, Another Stating ‘No Religion Should Be Equated with Terrorism’ 19 November, 2010 GA/11024 General Assembly Makes Appointments to Administrative, Budgetary Bodies GA/AB/3971 Budget Committee Takes Up Financing Request of $85.7 Million for UN Sudan Mission, to Fund Assistance Provided for January Referendums in Southern Sudan GA/SHC/3999 General Assembly Will Declare 30 August International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearance, in Resolution Approved by Third Committee 18 November, 2010 GA/EF/3298 Second Committee Approves Text Demanding Israel End Depletion, Endangerment of Natural Resources in Arab Lands Under Its Occupation GA/SHC/3998 Third Committee Approves Resolutions on Human Rights in Myanmar, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 16 November, 2010 GA/AB/3970 Rocked by Turmoil in World Financial Markets, United Nations Staff Pension Fund Bounces Back to Post 30 Per Cent Jump in Assets, Budget Committee Told GA/SHC/3997 General Assembly Will Hold ‘World Conference on Indigenous Peoples’ in 2014, under Terms of Resolution Recommended by Third Committee 15 November, 2010 GA/SPD/472 Fourth Committee, Concluding Main Part of Session, Extends Mandate of Palestinian Relief Agency until 30 June 2014, Forwards Total of 27 Texts to General Assembly 12 November, 2010 GA/11023 Concluding Annual Debate on Security Council Reform, General Assembly Delegations Express Competing Views on Best Way Forward GA/EF/3297 Second Committee Approves Draft Resolution Calling for Promotion of Ecotourism as Tool in Helping to Realize Millennium Development Goals 11 November, 2010 GA/11022 Solution to Reform of Security Council ‘Is in Your Hands’, General Assembly President Says as Member States Begin Annual Debate on Long-Standing Issue GA/L/3406 Legal Committee Delegates Strive to Reach Consensus on Terrorism Text; Doubts Expressed on ‘Oral Amendment’ Procedure GA/SHC/3996 General Assembly Will Call for All States to Establish a Moratorium on Executions with View to Abolishing Death Penalty, under Text Approved by Third Committee GA/SPD/471 Fourth Committee Hears Palestinian Relief Agency’s Funding Crisis on ‘Knife Edge’; Nearing Conclusion of Work, Approves Texts on Atomic Radiation, 2011 Work Plan 10 November, 2010 GA/AB/3969 Budget Committee Approves Texts on Board of Auditors Reports, Pattern of Conferences, Begins Debate on New United Nations Administration of Justice System GA/PAL/1175 Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Peaceful Settlement of Palestine Question, Related Matters 9 November, 2010 GA/11021 Making Appointments to Committee on Conferences, Committee for Programme Coordination, General Assembly Fills Vacancies in Subsidiary Bodies GA/SHC/3995 Third Committee Approves Text Calling for Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Global Development Goal Efforts, High-Level Meeting to Assess Progress 8 November, 2010 GA/11020 Taking up Report of International Atomic Energy Agency, General Assembly Adopts Resolution Reaffirming Its Strong Support for Agency’s Indispensable Role GA/SPD/470 Refugee Returns Possible ‘Doorway’ to Resolving Arab-Israeli Conflict, Say Fourth Committee Delegates, as Israel Touts ‘Cynicism’ of Israeli Practices Committee 5 November, 2010 GA/AB/3968 Budget Committee Recommends Appointments to Subsidiary Bodies GA/L/3405 Legal Committee, Approving Drafts on International Trade Law Commission, Welcomes Technical Cooperation with Developing Countries GA/SPD/469 Israel’s Pursuit of Peace ‘Façade’, as Human Rights Violations, Untold Suffering, Blockade Persist Even in Life-and-Death Situations, Fourth Committee Hears 4 November, 2010 GA/11019 Welcoming Afghanistan Government’s Renewed Commitment to Ensuring Stability, Peace, General Assembly Encourages All Partners to Back Afghan-Led Kabul Process GA/AB/3967 Budget Committee Considers Financing of United Nations Operations in Chad, Central African Republic as Mission Enters ‘Wind Down’ Period GA/EF/3296 Israeli Restrictions Deepen Palestinian Hardships, Second Committee Told as It Considers Arab Sovereignty over Natural Resources in Occupied Lands GA/SHC/3994 Third Committee Approves Three Texts on Women’s Issues — Welcoming ‘UN Women’, Condemning All Violence against Women, Establishing International Widow’s Day 3 November, 2010 GA/11018 General Assembly Considers Annual Report of Human Rights Council GA/EF/3295 Cultural Context as Important as Poverty Levels in Assessing Importance of Equity for Economic Growth, Second Committee Told GA/SHC/3993 Eliminating Racial Discrimination; Ensuring Right to Self-Determination; Protecting Refugees Issues Addressed, as Third Committee Continues Human Rights Debate 2 November, 2010 GA/EF/3294 Global Action Needed to Tackle Urban Squalor as Number of Slum-Dwellers Continues Rising Worldwide, Second Committee Told GA/SHC/3992 Voluntary Refugee Returns Worst in Two Decades; World Faces Quasi-Permanent Refugee Situations in Areas of Never-Ending Conflict, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/468 Severe Financial Shortages, Persistent Blockade of Gaza Strip Hamper Ability of Palestinian Relief Agency to Assist World’s Oldest Refugee Population 1 November, 2010 GA/EF/3293 Wealthy Nations Urged to Take Lead in Quest for Legally Binding Climate Accord as Second Committee Takes up Sustainable Development GA/L/3404 As Current Debate Ends, Legal Committee Members Discuss Guidelines for Ongoing Work on Topics Considered from International Law Commission Report GA/SHC/3991 Intergovernmental Working Group Established by Human Rights Council to Elaborate Convention on Regulating Private Security Companies, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/467 Political Actors in Middle East Must Make Courageous Choices, Persevere in Pursuit of Peace, Head of Palestinian Refugee Relief Agency Tells Fourth Committee 29 October, 2010 GA/11017 General Assembly Weighs in on United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, Adopts Text Recognizing Central Importance of Peacebuilding Commission GA/AB/3966 Budget Committee Continues Debate on Human Resources Management Reform; Continuing Contracts, Geographic Representation of Staff among Issues GA/DIS/3425 Disarmament Committee Notes New Strategic Relationship between Russian Federation, United States, Their Endeavour to Reduce Role, Importance of Nuclear Weapons GA/L/3403 Assembly’s Legal Committee Is Told of Good Rate of Compliance with Judgments of International Court of Justice 28 October, 2010 GA/11016 Presidents of International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice Present Annual Reports to General Assembly GA/AB/3965 United Nations ‘Greatest Resource Is Its Workforce’, Says Deputy Secretary-General as Budget Committee Takes Up Human Resources Management Reform Issues GA/DIS/3424 Conventional Arms Control, Symmetry as Lynchpin to Regional, Subregional Stability Subject of One of 16 Draft Resolutions, Decisions Approved by First Committee GA/EF/3292 Stagnant Food Production, Rising Malnourishment Threaten Africa’s Ability to Feed Itself, Delegate Says as Second Committee Considers Agriculture, Food Security GA/L/3402 Stepped-up Efforts on Mechanisms for Natural Disaster Relief Are Discussed as Legal Committee Continues Review of International Law Commission Report GA/SHC/3990 Third Committee Approves Draft Text Calling for General Assembly Plenary Meeting to Launch International Year of Cooperatives 2012 GA/SPD/466 Amid ‘Renaissance of Nuclear Energy’, Users Eager to Evaluate Risk, Establish Safety, Protection Standards Over Radiation Levels, Fourth Committee Told 27 October, 2010 GA/DIS/3423 Time Now Opportune for Nuclear-Armed States to Take Effective Disarmament Measures to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, by 1 of 12 Drafts Approved in First Committee GA/EF/3291 Migration Could Greatly Benefit Both Origin, Destination Countries, Agency’s Permanent Observer Tells Second Committee GA/L/3401 Law Commission Official Responds to Legal Committee Comments on Issue of ‘Treaty Reservations’, Defending Time to Complete Draft Articles GA/SHC/3989 National Efforts to Protect Human Rights, Effectiveness of Human Rights Council and Special Procedures among Issues, as Third Committee Debate Continues GA/SPD/465 Overburdened, Underfunded, Overstretched Peacekeeping Operations Create ‘Yawning Gap’ between Expectations, Performance, Fourth Committee Told at Close of Debate 26 October, 2010 GA/11015 As Speakers Denounce Use of ‘Cold-War Era Tools of Coercion’, General Assembly again Calls for End to United States Economic, Trade Embargo against Cuba GA/AB/3964 Budget Committee Takes Up Annual Report of International Civil Service Commission; Wide Range of Recommendations Aim at Unifying Conditions of Service for Staff GA/DIS/3422 General Assembly to Ask Nuclear Powers to Meet Obligations to Forswear Nuclear Weapons, Reduce Significance in Security Concepts, by First Committee Text GA/EF/3290 Speakers in Second Committee, Discussing Information and Communications Technology for Development, Stress Importance of Universal Access to Broadband Connectivity GA/L/3400 Problem of How Newly Emerging States Respond to Treaty Doubts Expressed by Predecessors Is Discussed in Assembly’s Legal Committee GA/SHC/3988 ‘Cornerstone’ Security Council Resolutions on Counter-Terrorism Should Be Replaced by Single Text Not Adopted Under Charter’s Chapter VII, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/464 ‘Cyclic Targets’ for Peacekeeping Tantamount to Putting Price on Peace – Price Dearly Paid by Millions of Civilians in Conflict, Fourth Committee Hears 25 October, 2010 GA/11014 General Assembly Elects 18 Members to Economic and Social Council GA/DIS/3421 Momentum Gathering for Weaponization of Outer Space, Risk of Outer Space Arms Race Rising, Warns China’s Delegation in First Committee, Urging Binding New Treaty GA/L/3399 Progress on Guidelines for ‘Reservations to Treaties’ Is Reported to Legal Committee; Final Version Ready for Adoption Next Year GA/SHC/3987 General Assembly, Human Rights Council Texts Declaring Water, Sanitation Human Right ‘Breakthrough’; Challenge Now to Turn Right ‘into a Reality’, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/463 No Greater Sign of Country’s Commitment to Collective Security than Willingness to Send Its Nationals into Harm’s Way under UN Flag, Fourth Committee Hears 22 October, 2010 GA/DIS/3420 First Committee Considers One of Greatest Contemporary Security Threats — Chemical, Biological Weapons, as Thematic Debates, Introduction of Drafts Continue GA/EF/3289 Job Creation ‘a Key Element’ for Effective, Comprehensive Poverty Reduction, Assistant Secretary-General Tells Second Committee Discussion GA/L/3398 Legal Committee Is Told ‘Rule of Law’ Assistance Programme, Facing Growing Global Demands, Seriously Short of Funds GA/SHC/3986 Past Trends towards Increasing ‘Criminalization’ of Irregular Migration Continue; Migrants Face Racism, Abuse, Appalling Housing Conditions, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/462 United Nations Peacekeeping Essential, But Success Not Guaranteed Because Peacekeepers Work in Most Demanding Physical, Political Environments, Fourth Committee told 21 October, 2010 GA/AB/3963 Budget Committee Takes Up Report on Improving United Nations Financial Situation GA/DIS/3419 Fortifying Regional Disarmament and Security, Countering Potential Cyberwarfare, Misuse of Dual-Purpose Technologies, Focus of Debate in First Committee GA/EF/3288 Speakers in Second Committee Underline Need for Urgent Steps to Reverse Deepening Poverty Worldwide as Millennium Goals Deadline Looms GA/L/3397 On Issue of Transboundary Damage from Hazardous Activities, Some Legal Committee Delegates Urge Study of State Practice GA/SHC/3985 Unprecedented Pressures on Farmland — with 30 million Hectares Lost Annually — Poses ‘Direct Threat to the Right to Food of Rural Populations’, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/461 Public Information Department is Public Voice of United Nations, Fourth Committee Hears, Charting Path in Two Drafts for Organization’s Mission to Spread Message 20 October, 2010 GA/11013 General Assembly Takes Up 2010 Report on the Work of Economic and Social Council GA/AB/3962 Budget Committee Approves Text Endorsing Recommendations of Committee on Programme and Coordination on Strategic Framework, Setting Priorities for 2012-2013 GA/DIS/3418 Arms Supplies to Conflict-Ridden Regions with Unmanageable Conventional Weapons Imbalance Enhance Compulsion to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told GA/EF/3287 Globalization Tarnished by Failure to Consider ‘Disastrous’ Effects on Poor Countries, as Second Committee Hears Calls for Equity, Fairness GA/L/3396 Legal Committee Discusses Ways to Apply Law Commission Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection; Further Work Needed Before Decision GA/SHC/3984 Sixty Years after Human Rights Declaration Adopted Challenge Remains Same — Bringing Vision Closer to Ground, so It Touches ‘Lives of Real People’, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/460 Speakers in Fourth Committee Hail Efforts of Department of Public Information to Expand Audience, Effectively Spread Message on United Nations Priorities 19 October, 2010 GA/DIS/3417 Patchwork of National, Regional Controls over Conventional Weapons Trade Lacks Global Support Needed to Reduce Arms in Circulation, First Committee Hears GA/L/3395 Legal Committee Delegates Differ on Applying Rules for State Responsibility: Convention Needed, or Customary Law Adequate? GA/SHC/3983 Twenty-Six Years after UN Treaty Aimed at Absolute Prohibition of Torture Adopted ‘We Have Not yet Achieved That Goal,’ Third Committee Told GA/SPD/459 Public Information Department Applies Strategic Approach, Operational Upgrades, New Technologies to Evolving Communications Environment, Fourth Committee Told 18 October, 2010 GA/11012 Adopting Resolution on ‘Sport as Means to Promote Development’, General Assembly Recognizes Potential of Sport to Encourage Tolerance, Social Cohesion GA/DIS/3416 ‘High Priests of Disarmament Content with Status Quo,’ First Committee Told, as Debate Intensifies Over Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament Gridlock GA/EF/3286 Delegates in Second Committee Stress Need to Adopt New, Targeted, Action-Oriented Successor Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries GA/L/3394 Responsibility of States to Ensure Protection of Diplomatic Personnel, Premises Is Reviewed by Assembly’s Legal Committee GA/SHC/3982 Implementation of Indigenous Rights Declaration Should Be Regarded as Political, Moral, Legal Imperative without Qualification, Third Committee Told 15 October, 2010 GA/AB/3961 Budget Committee Approves Consensus Texts on Contributions Committee, Statistical Report on Financial Situation of United Nations Organizations GA/DIS/3415 Thematic Debate Continues in First Committee, as Speakers Seek to Recast Norm against Nuclear Weapons Possession, Codify Global Security Architecture GA/EF/3285 Global Policymakers Should Rethink Economic Classification of Countries to Reflect Their Actual Challenges, Keynote Speaker Tells Second Committee GA/L/3393 Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict Needs Greater Adherence to Geneva Convention Protocols, Assembly’s Legal Committee Is Told GA/SHC/3981 Third Committee Speakers Describe Wide Range of Ways — from Reintegration of Child Soldiers to Rural Schools-on-Wheels — Countries Promote Child Rights 14 October, 2010 GA/11011 Assembly President Calls for ‘True Spirit of Partnership’ Among All Nations to Secure Peace, Stability, Sustainable Development in Africa GA/DIS/3414 Double Standards, Discriminatory Practices Must Be Traded for Trust to Overcome Obstacles to Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, First Committee Hears in Debate GA/EF/3284 Delegates in Second Committee Call for More Follow-up Action to Ensure Full Implementation of Monterrey Consensus, Doha Declaration GA/SHC/3980 Third Committee Approves Text on ‘Bangkok Rules’ for Treatment of Female Prisoners; One of Four Criminal Justice Resolutions Recommended to General Assembly GA/SPD/458 Strength of International Space Law to Prevent Militarization of Outer Space, Respond to Other Current Challenges Weighed in Fourth Committee 13 October, 2010 GA/11010 General Assembly President Calls for More Inclusive Finance Measures, as World Body Weighs Progress, Hurdles in Promoting Microfinance as Path out of Poverty GA/DIS/3413 Conference on Disarmament Chief Asks Member States in First Committee: ‘Do You Want Disarmament or Do You Want Consensus?’, as Nuclear Weapons Debate Begins GA/EF/3283 Fearing Decline or Reversal in Development Financing, Second Committee Delegates Call for Steady, More Balanced Cash Flows to Fund UN Operational Activities GA/L/3392 Sixth Committee Delegates Discuss Ways to Further Review Complex, Controversial Issues of Applying Universal Legal Jurisdiction GA/SHC/3979 To ‘Truly Universalize’ Child Rights Global Community Must Reach Neediest Children in Critical Early Years with Nutrition, Protection, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/457 Emergency Responses, National Advances Prove World’s Commitment to Developing Outer Space for Good of Humanity, Fourth Committee Told 12 October, 2010 DSG/SM/526-GA/L/3391 Resources Allocated for Strengthening Rule of Law Have Fallen Short, Deputy Secretary-General Says in Remarks to Sixth Committee GA/11009 General Assembly Elects Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal, South Africa, to Serve Two-Year Terms on Security Council GA/AB/3960 Under-Secretary-General for Management Briefs Budget Committee, Describes ‘Mixed’ United Nations Financial Situation GA/DIS/3412 Treaty Banning Only Future Production of Fissile Material Will Freeze Asymmetries in Stockpiles, Be Injurious to Pakistan’s National Security, First Committee Told GA/L/3390 Legal Committee Is Told Adherence to ‘Rule of Law’ Critical to Goals of Peace Promotion, Poverty Reduction, Development, Anti-terrorism GA/SHC/3978 Third Committee Speakers Say 2010 ‘Groundbreaking Year’ for Women’s Empowerment, with Creation of UN Women, While Underlining Many Challenges Ahead GA/SPD/456 Crisis Management Landscape Evolving, Fourth Committee Hears as It Probes Diverse Benefits of Outer Space Research on Natural Disaster Mitigation, Development 11 October, 2010 GA/DIS/3411 Controlling Fissile Material Holdings of Key Nuclear Weapons Possessors Would Go Far to Curb Proliferation, Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, First Committee Told GA/EF/3282 Call Sounded for Mechanism to Ensure Debt Sustainability, as Second Committee Begins Consideration of Macroeconomic Policy Questions GA/L/3389 Legal Committee Delegates Applaud Positive Outcome of Latest Session of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law GA/SHC/3977 Calls for Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment ‘Must Be More Than a Mantra; It Must Become a Lived Reality’ for Women in All Countries, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/455 Fourth Committee Sends 12 Draft Texts to General Assembly on Decolonization, Including Request for Third International Decade, Concludes Debate on Topic 8 October, 2010 GA/11008 Top Officials from United Nations War Crimes Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Appeal to Assembly for Resources, Help with Staffing Woes GA/AB/3959 Budget Committee Takes Up Annual Reports by Office of Internal Oversight Services, Independent Audit Advisory Committee GA/DIS/3410 Diplomatic Clash over Absence of Binding Promises Never to Use Nuclear Weapons against Non-Nuclear-Weapon States Resurfaces in First Committee during Debate GA/EF/3281 Second Committee Considers Limits on Speaking Time, Deadlines for Submitting Drafts, as Members Propose Ideas to Improve Working Methods GA/L/3388 Discussion Renewed on Efforts to Prosecute Criminal Misconduct by United Nations Officials, Experts While Serving on Mission GA/SPD/454 Self-determination Important, but for Some Vulnerable Communities, Status Quo Option Deserves Respect, Fourth Committee Hears in Decolonization Debate 7 October, 2010 GA/AB/3958 Budget Committee Takes Up Agenda Items on Programme Planning, Pattern of Conferences, Including Proposed Strategic Framework for Biennium 2012-2013 GA/DIS/3409 Alongside Focus on Nuclear Threat, Eyes Must Be Pinned on Devastating Small Arms Scourge — Fuelling Armed Violence, Black Market Trade, First Committee Told GA/SHC/3976 Transnational Organized Crime Extending Reach into New Areas — Cyber Crime, ‘High Seas Poaching’ — Which Needs Coordinated Response, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/453 Ongoing Stalemate over Status of Western Sahara Creates Breeding Ground for Terrorist Activity, Human Rights Abuses, Fourth Committee Told 6 October, 2010 GA/AB/3957 Budget Committee Approves Text Allowing Six Countries to Continue Voting During Current General Assembly Session, Despite Budget Arrears GA/DIS/3408 Rule of Law Not Rule of Power Needed to Tackle Disarmament Challenges, First Committee Told in Debate on Full Range of Security Threats GA/EF/3280 As Second Committee Concludes Its General Debate, Delegates Stress Need for New Systems to Relieve Debt, Prevent ‘Reckless’ Speculative Financial Practices GA/L/3387 Delegates Stress `Core Principles` of Judicial Procedure as Basis for New System of Justice at United Nations GA/SHC/3975 Struggle against Organized Crime, Corruption, Drug Trafficking Connected; Too Big for Countries to Confront on Their Own, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/452 Western Sahara ‘Last Decolonization Process in Africa’, Fourth Committee Told, As Unresolved Territorial Disputes, Including Gibraltar, Dominate Agenda 5 October, 2010 GA/11007 General Assembly Delegations Press United Nations to Harness Unrivalled Convening Power to Tackle Modern Threats, Launch Institutional Reforms GA/DIS/3407 World Faces Conundrum over Desire for Security through Outdated Machinery that Delivers Stalemates Instead of Progress, First Committee Hears GA/EF/3279 Rich Nations Pressed to Shoulder ‘Historic Responsibility’ of Helping Poor Countries Bridge Development Gaps, as Second Committee Continues Debate GA/L/3386 Legal Committee Is Told Overall Convention against Terrorism Must Meet International Law, Humanitarian Concerns GA/SHC/3974 Residual Effects of Global Crises – Financial, Food, Fuel – Impeding Progress towards Achieving Millennium Development Goals, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/451 Stalled Progress over Non-Self-Governing Territories Sparks Frustration in Fourth Committee, as Petitioners Seek to Galvanize Support for Decolonization Effort 4 October, 2010 GA/AB/3956 Budget Committee Takes Up Agenda Item on Scale of Assessments; Hears Introduction of Committee on Contributions Report GA/DIS/3406 ‘May the Momentum Be with Us,’ Urges Disarmament Chief in First Committee, Warning against Indefinite Delays, Chronic Compliance Questions, Military Spending Trends GA/EF/3278 Needs of Most Vulnerable Must Be Central to Fiscal Polices, Stimulus Plans, Under-Secretary-General Says as Second Committee Begins General Debate GA/L/3385 Legal Committee, Adopting Work Programme, Sets Early Dates to Discuss Justice System at United Nations, Anti-Terrorism Measures GA/SHC/3973 To Achieve Development Goals ‘Inclusive Policies’ Needed to Reduce Unemployment, Fight Poverty, Lessen Social Injustice, Says Under-Secretary General GA/SPD/450 Despite Successes, Decolonization Process Plagued by Lack of Political Will, Creative Thinking, Fourth Committee Hears as It Opens Debate on Topic 1 October, 2010 GA/DIS/3405 First Committee Completes Bureau, Prepares Ground for Upcoming General Debate on All Disarmament, International Security Items, in Organizational Meeting GA/PAL/1174 ‘Choice between Settlements or Peace in Israel’s Hands,’ Palestinian Rights Committee Hears, as It Adopts Draft Annual Report 30 September, 2010 GA/AB/3955 Budget Committee Holds Organizational Meeting GA/SPD/449 Decolonization, Outer Space, Peacekeeping, Palestine Refugees, Information Top Agenda of Fourth Committee, Which Completes Bureau in Organizational Meeting 29 September, 2010 GA/11006 ‘We Must Move Forward!’ Assembly President Says, Challenging Member States to Be Brave Enough to Reject Static Positions, Make United Nations Better 28 September, 2010 GA/11005 Ministers Urge Serious Steps to End Long-Standing Conflicts, Support for Peace Processes, as General Assembly’s Annual Debate Continues 27 September, 2010 GA/11004 Senior Government Officials from Nations on the Front Lines of Climate Change Urge Comprehensive Action to Help with Mitigation, Adaptation Measures 25 September, 2010 DSG/SM/525-GA/11003-ENV/DEV/1164 Deputy Secretary-General, at Closing of Review Meeting, Calls Challenges Facing Small Island Developing States ‘Global Issues that Affect Us All’ GA/11001 World Leaders Appeal for International Solidarity, Applied through Legitimacy of United Nations, as General Assembly Continues Annual High-Level Debate GA/11002-ENV/DEV/1163 General Assembly Urges Concessionary Development Financing for Small Island Developing States, Greater Attention to Vulnerabilities 24 September, 2010 GA/10998-ENV/DEV/1161 Secretary-General Pledges Continuing United Nations Commitment to Support Small Island Developing States GA/10999 With United Nations Credibility, Leadership Role in Jeopardy, World Leaders Warn Only ‘Radical Overhaul’ Can Bring Organization Fully into Twenty-First Century SG/SM/13139-GA/11000-ENV/DEV/1162 Small Island States Need Increased Financing for ‘Dramatic Changes’ Needed to Cope with Climate Change, Reach Development Goals, Says Secretary-General 23 September, 2010 GA/10996 Opening General Debate, Secretary-General Says ‘Great Goals Are Within Reach’, Urges Members States to Stand United ‘Against Forces that Would Divide Us’ SG/SM/13134-GA/10997 Secretary-General Says ‘Great Goals within Reach’ — Fighting Poverty, Preserving Climate, Eliminating Nuclear Weapons — if World Pulls Together through UN 22 September, 2010 GA/10992-ENV/DEV/1158 Secretary-General, at High-Level Meeting, Stresses Urgent Need to Reverse Alarming Rate of Biodiversity Loss, Rescue ‘Natural Economy’ GA/10993-DEV/2825 Confident that Despite Uneven Progress, Setbacks, Millennium Development Goals Can Still Be Achieved by 2015, Leaders Adopt ‘Action Agenda’ on Way Forward SG/SM/13127-GA/10994-ENV/DEV/1160 Ecosystem Services Our Natural Capital; Allowing Their Decline Is ‘Like Throwing Money Out the Window’, Secretary-General Tells High-level Biodiversity Event SG/SM/13133-GA/10995-DEV/2833 When Spotlights Are Switched Off, Says Secretary-General as Millennium Development Goals Summit Closes, World Attention Quickly Moves on; ‘We Cannot Let that Happen’ 21 September, 2010 GA/10989-DEV/2818 Stronger Development Partnership, Better Market Access, Improved Governance Seen as Vital for Developing Countries to Achieve Millennium Development Goals GA/10990-ENV/DEV/1156 High-level General Assembly Meeting, 22 September, to Spur Action Aimed at Stemming Further Loss of Biological Diversity GA/10991-ENV/DEV/1157 Small Island States Will Seek Fair Global Policies to Promote Growth, Resilience at General Assembly High-level Meeting, 24-25 September 20 September, 2010 GA/10987-DEV/2813 ‘The Clock is Ticking,’ Secretary-General Says, Urging World Leaders to Generate Resources, Political will to Achieve Millennium Development Goals by 2015 SG/SM/13114-GA/10988-DEV/2815 Secretary-General, at General Assembly High-level Plenary, Underscores Need For Political Leadership in Meeting Millennium Development Goals 17 September, 2010 GA/10986 General Assembly Adopts Programme of Work for Sixty-Fifth Session GA/EF/3277 Second Committee Adopts Work Programme Covering Poverty Eradication, Development, Climate Change, among Other Key Issues to Be Considered During New Session 14 September, 2010 BIO/4238-GA/10984 Joseph Deiss of Switzerland President of Sixty-Fifth General Assembly BIO/4239-GA/DIS/3404 Miloš Koterec of Slovakia Chair of First Committee BIO/4240-GA/EF/3276 Ochir Enkhtsetseg of Mongolia Chair of Second Committee BIO/4241-GA/SHC/3972 Michel Tommo Monthe of Cameroon Chair of Third Committee BIO/4242-GA/SPD/448 Chitsaka Chipaziwa of Zimbabwe Chair of Fourth Committee BIO/4243-GA/AB/3954 Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala Chair of Fifth Committee BIO/4244-GA/L/3384 Isabelle Picco of Monaco Chair of Sixth Committee GA/10983 Closing Sixty-Fourth Session, General Assembly President Urges Concrete Actions to Ensure Body’s Objectives Are Met, Decisions Respected, Authority Reinforced GA/10985 Reaffirming General Assembly as Pre-eminent Forum for Global Debate, Incoming President Previews ‘Heavy Agenda’ for Sixty-Fifth Session 13 September, 2010 GA/10982 General Assembly, in Consensus Actions, Adopts 3 Resolutions, 2 Decisions on Millennium Goals, Small Island States, Year of Biodiversity SG/SM/13093-GA/10981 Secretary-General Welcomes General Assembly Resolution on Kosovo Independence 9 September, 2010 GA/10978 General Assembly Elects Joan E. Donoghue of United States to International Court of Justice, in Tandem with Security Council, to Serve until 5 February 2015 GA/10979 General Assembly Defers Consideration of Draft Resolution Concerning Observance of International Human Rights Law in ‘Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan’ GA/10980 Adopting Consensus Resolution, General Assembly Acknowledges World Court Opinion on Kosovo, Welcomes European Union Readiness to Facilitate Process of Dialogue 8 September, 2010 GA/10977 With Consensus Resolution, General Assembly Reiterates Unequivocal Condemnation of Terrorism, Reaffirms Support for 2006 UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy 7 September, 2010 GA/10976 General Assembly Adopts Text Recognizing Right of Return of Internally Displaced Persons throughout Georgia, Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia 31 August, 2010 GA/10974 General Assembly Launches Global Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons; Secretary-General Says Partnership Only Way to End ‘Slavery in the Modern Age’ GA/PAL/1173 Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee Welcomes Decision by Israelis, Palestinians to Resume Direct Negotiations Towards Resolving All Permanent Status Issues SG/SM/13079-GA/10975 Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Human Trafficking ‘Slavery in the Modern Age’; Can Only Be Ended by Working in Partnership through Global Plan of Action 27 August, 2010 GA/SHC/3971 Michel Tommo Monthe of Cameroon Elected Chair of Third Committee for Sixty-Fifth Session of General Assembly GA/SPD/447 Fourth Committee Elects Chitsaka Chipaziwa of Zimbabwe Chair for Sixty-Fifth General Assembly Session 25 August, 2010 GA/10972 General Assembly Elects Joan Clos of Spain New Executive Director of United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) SG/SM/13071-GA/10973 Secretary-General Mourns Deaths of Former General Assembly Presidents Guido de Marco, Samir Shihabi; Says World Remembers ‘Tremendous Good They Did for and Among Us’ 20 August, 2010 GA/10971 On Debate’s Second Day, General Assembly Speakers Express Solidarity with Pakistan after Unprecedented, Devastating Floods, Urge Rapid, Generous Assistance GA/PAL/1172 Palestine’s Permanent Observer Informs Palestinian Rights Committee Quartet Has Invited Israel, Palestinians to Begin Direct Negotiations 2 September 19 August, 2010 GA/10969 General Assembly Calls for Strengthened Emergency Relief to Meet Pakistan’s Urgent Needs after Massive Destruction Caused by Unprecedented, Devastating Floods SG/SM/13065-GA/10970-IHA/1283 Secretary-General tells General Assembly Pakistan’s Disaster from Devastating Floods ‘One of the Greatest Tests of Global Solidarity in Our Times’ 30 July, 2010 GA/10968 General Assembly Adopts Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, Reaffirming Commitment on Protecting Victims, Prosecuting Perpetrators 28 July, 2010 GA/10967 General Assembly Adopts Resolution Recognizing Access to Clean Water, Sanitation as Human Right, by Recorded Vote of 122 in Favour, None against, 41 Abstentions 16 July, 2010 GA/10965-OBV/896 As General Assembly Gathers to Honour Mandela’s Life and Legacy, South African Minister Says Every Day Should Be ‘Nelson Mandela Day’ GA/10966 In Three Actions, General Assembly Beefs Up Judicial Staff of Rwanda, Yugoslavia Tribunals, Seeks to Promote Understanding of ‘Human Security’ Concept 9 July, 2010 GA/10964 General Assembly Adopts Landmark Resolution Calling on States to Ensure Right to Education for Affected Populations in All Phases of Emergency Situations 6 July, 2010 GA/10962 Queen Elizabeth II, Addressing United Nations for First Time in 53 Years, Calls on Organization to Tackle New, Emerging Challenges SG/SM/13000-GA/10963 Deeming Queen Elizabeth II ‘Anchor for Our Age’, Secretary-General Pledges to Heed Her Call to Devote Full Strength to Charter Ideals, Realize Better World for All 2 July, 2010 DSG/SM/515-GA/10958-WOM/1804 Deputy Secretary-General, at Press Conference, Welcomes Historic Move to Create ‘UN Women’, to Give Girls, Women Strong Voice on World Stage GA/10959 General Assembly Adopts Consensus Text on System-Wide Coherence, Establishing Composite Entity — UN Women — to Accelerate Gender Equality, Empowerment GA/PAL/1171 United Nations African Meeting on Question of Palestine Closes in Rabat, Morocco, Issues Call to Security Council to Act on Jerusalem SG/SM/12990-GA/10960-WOM/1805 ‘The Newest Member of the UN Family Has Been Born Today,’ Secretary-General Tells General Assembly upon Decision to Set Up Composite Body, ‘UN Women’ SG/SM/12991-GA/10961-WOM/1807 More than Basic Human Right, Equality is Social, Economic Imperative, Secretary-General Says in Statement on Creation of ‘UN Women’ 1 July, 2010 GA/PAL/1169 United Nations African Meeting on Question of Palestine Opens in Rabat, Morocco, Highlights Resolution of Status of Jerusalem as Core, Priority Issue SG/SM/12986-GA/PAL/1170 Secretary-General, In Message, Urges Parties to Seize Opportunity Presented by Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks, Refrain from Provocations 29 June, 2010 GA/10956 General Assembly Elects China’s Xue Hanqin to Serve as Judge on International Court of Justice until February 2012 GA/10957 General Assembly Adopts Decision Setting 14 December as Date for Commemoration of Decolonization Declaration’s Fiftieth Anniversary 28 June, 2010 GA/PAL/1168 United Nations African Meeting on Question of Palestine to Consider Boosting African Support for Just, Lasting Solution, in Rabat, Morocco, 1–2 July 25 June, 2010 GA/COL/3213 Concluding Session, Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Proposing Third International Decade for Eradication of Colonialism 24 June, 2010 GA/10955 General Assembly Adopts Peacekeeping Budget of $7.2 Billion for Financial Year 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 GA/COL/3212 Special Committee on Decolonization Recommends General Assembly Reiterate Call for Resumption of Negotiations over Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 23 June, 2010 GA/COL/3211 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Reaffirming Obligations of Administering Powers to Facilitate Genuine Self-Determination 22 June, 2010 GA/10953 Secretary-General Says ‘Successful Peacekeeping Is a Shared Responsibility’ as General Assembly Marks Tenth Anniversary of Brahimi Reform Report GA/COL/3210 Special Committee on Decolonization Urged to Visit Guam as Petitioners Deplore Militarization of Non-Self-Governing Territory SG/SM/12966-GA/10954-PKO/250 Thanks to Brahimi Report Reforms, UN Peacekeeping Today Continues to Serve as ‘Mission of Hope’ for People Caught in Conflict, Says Secretary-General 21 June, 2010 GA/10952 Speakers Say Best Way to Mark Tenth Anniversary of Anti-Crime Convention Stronger Global Follow-Up, as Assembly Concludes High-Level Meeting GA/COL/3209 Special Committee on Decolonization Passes Text Urging General Assembly to Consider Formally Situation Concerning Puerto Rico 18 June, 2010 GA/10951 General Assembly Fills Vacancies on Joint Inspection Unit, Elects Judge to In-House Dispute Tribunal GA/AB/3953 Fifth Committee Recommends Peacekeeping Budget of $7.2 Billion for Financial Year Running from July 2010 to June 2011 17 June, 2010 GA/10949 Citing Explosion of Transnational Organized Crime, Secretary-General Hails United Nations Anti-Crime Convention as Blueprint to Counteract Threat SG/SM/12963-GA/10950-SOC/CP/356 Secretary-General, Addressing General Assembly Meeting on Transnational Organized Crime, Calls for Sharpening of Landmark Palermo Convention 15 June, 2010 GA/COL/3208 Resuming 2010 Session, Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Requests for Hearings by Non-Self-Governing Territories, Takes Up Question of Gibraltar 11 June, 2010 DSG/SM/509-GA/10948 ‘Skill and Wisdom’ of New General Assembly President - Gained as Scholar, Minister Parliamentarian - Needed Across Broad UN Agenda, Says Deputy Secretary-General GA/10947 By Acclamation, General Assembly Elects Joseph Deiss of Switzerland as President of Sixty-Fifth Session 9 June, 2010 GA/10946 General Assembly Holds Review of International Efforts against HIV/AIDS; Told Progress Made, but Epidemic Continues to Outpace Global Response GA/PAL/1167 Israel Faces Future ‘Catastrophic Outcome’ unless It Changes Aggressive Stance, Former Envoy Tells Palestinian Rights Committee after High Seas Raid 3 June, 2010 GA/10945 General Assembly Designates 20 October as World Statistics Day, Makes Appointment to Fill Vacancy on Contributions Committee 27 May, 2010 GA/AB/3952 Fifth Committee Takes Up Proposed $10.6 Million Budget for United Nations Office to African Union GA/PAL/1166 United Nations Public Forum in Support of the Palestinian People Focuses on Jerusalem as Key to Peace with Israel 26 May, 2010 GA/AB/3951 Budget Committee Takes Up Commitment Authority Proposals for Next Six Months for Missions in Haiti; Central African Republic and Chad GA/PAL/1165 International Meeting on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Stresses Need to Build Consensus for Establishing Palestinian State 25 May, 2010 GA/PAL/1163 International Meeting on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Opens in Istanbul Spotlights Path to Ending Occupation, Building Viable Palestinian State SG/SM/12913-GA/PAL/1164 Secretary-General Advises Parties against Provocations, as UN International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Opens 21 May, 2010 GA/10944 General Assembly Concludes Human Security Debate, with Some Speakers Saying Idea Too Imprecise, while Others Describe It as Forward-Thinking, Adaptable to UN GA/COL/3207 Pacific Regional Seminar Concludes in New Caledonia with Discussion on Charting Way Forward GA/PAL/1162 United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process to Be Held in Istanbul, Turkey, 25–26 May 20 May, 2010 GA/10942 ‘Our Challenges Are Shared; So, Too, Is Our Commitment to Enhance Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want, Freedom to Live in Dignity’, Says Secretary-General GA/COL/3206 Participants in Pacific Regional Seminar Discuss Challenges, Role of United Nations in Decolonization Process SG/SM/12901-GA/10943 To Ensure Today’s Gains Are Not Lost to Tomorrow’s Crises, Actions Must Be People-Centred, Says Secretary-General, in Human Security Debate 18 May, 2010 GA/COL/3205 Secretary-General, in Message to Open Pacific Regional Seminar, Calls for Creative Efforts to Complete Decolonization Process SG/SM/12896-GA/COL/3204 Secretary-General Urges ‘Fresh and Creative Efforts’ to Fully Implement Decolonization Declaration, in Message to Pacific Regional Seminar 14 May, 2010 GA/10940 Secretary-General Calls for Broader Cooperation, New Push for Stability in Somalia, to Combat Resurgence of Piracy as General Assembly Meets to Examine Global Scourge GA/COL/3203 Special Committee on Decolonization Will Hold Pacific Regional Seminar 18-20 May in Noumea, New Caledonia SG/SM/12891-GA/10941 Piracy Cannot Be Solved Only at Sea or in Isolation, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Meeting, Underlining Need to Change Strategy 13 May, 2010 GA/10939 General Assembly Fills 14 Seats on Human Rights Council; Approves Funds for Higher UN Troop, Police Levels in Haiti; Sets Date for Communicable Diseases Meeting GA/AB/3950 Budget Committee Discusses UN Financial Situation; Speakers Highlight Level of Unpaid Assessments, Amount Owed to Countries Contributing Troops, Police 12 May, 2010 GA/AB/3949 Fifth Committee Takes Up 2010/11 Budget Requests for Peacekeeping Support Account, Interim Force in Lebanon, African Union-United Nations Hybrid Mission in Darfur GA/SPD/446 Fourth Committee Approves Report of Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations 10 May, 2010 GA/AB/3948 With Peacekeeping Budget at Some $8 Billion, Fifth Committee Speakers Call for ‘Efficient, Effective and Accountable’ Management of Operations 7 May, 2010 GA/AB/3947 Budget Committee Recommends Additional $120.64 Million for UN Haiti Mission to Finance Increase in Troop, Police Levels Aimed to Support Recovery 6 May, 2010 GA/10938 Second World War One of History’s ‘Most Epic Struggles for Freedom and Liberation’, Says Secretary-General, as General Assembly Marks Anniversary of Conflict’s End 4 May, 2010 GA/AB/3946 Fifth Committee Takes Up Proposed Financing for Nine Peacekeeping Missions, Support for African Union in Somalia for Financial Year 2010/11 3 May, 2010 GA/AB/3945 Budget Committee Opens Four-Week Resumed Session to Consider Peacekeeping Financing for 16 Missions, Proposal for Global Field Support Strategy 23 April, 2010 GA/10937 World Witnessing ‘Trade of Degrees for Dollars’, Where Rich Emitters Pledge Money Instead of Change, General Assembly Hears at Close of Mother Earth Day Observance 22 April, 2010 GA/10936 On International Mother Earth Day, Assembly Urges Solutions to Contemporary Environmental Challenges, Conditions for Enduring Peace, Development 21 April, 2010 GA/PAL/1161 Frustration Expressed in Palestinian Rights Committee over Obstructed Diplomatic Efforts; UN Secretariat’s Launch of Facebook Page for Outreach Highlighted 19 April, 2010 GA/10934 Urging Sustained Momentum in Long-Stalled Effort to Achieve Disarmament, Security, Secretary-General, in Assembly Debate, Calls for Explosive Fissile Material Ban SG/SM/12847-GA/10935-DC/3221 Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Accelerating Disarmament Liberates Funds to Combat Climate Change, Food Insecurity, Attain Development Goals 15 April, 2010 GA/10933 General Assembly Pays Solemn Tribute to Polish President Killed in Plane Crash; Also Acts on Several Texts, Fills Vacancies on Two Subsidiary Bodies 31 March, 2010 GA/10932 International Conference Raises Almost $10 Billion as More Than 130 Donors Contribute ‘Towards a New Future for Haiti’ 30 March, 2010 GA/COL/3202 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Part of Official Delegation to Attend Pacific Regional Seminar in Nouméa, New Caledonia, 18-20 May 29 March, 2010 GA/10931 General Assembly Stresses Importance of Results-Based Management, Internal Controls, as It Adopts Resolution on Accountability 26 March, 2010 GA/PAL/1160 Activists Opposed to Separation Wall Speak Up During United Nations Civil Society Meeting in Support of the Palestinian People 25 March, 2010 GA/10930 Modern Forms of Slavery Must End to Eliminate Legacy of Bigotry, Delegates Say, as General Assembly Commemorates Transatlantic Slave Trade Victims GA/PAL/1158 United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People Assesses Programme for Ending Occupation, Establishing State GA/PAL/1159 Call for Recognition of Palestine Sounded as United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People Concludes 24 March, 2010 GA/10929 As Two-Day Dialogue Concludes, General Assembly President Says ‘Wealth of Ideas’ Put Forward Will Be Important Input for September Summit on Anti-Poverty Goals GA/PAL/1155 United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People Opens in Vienna with Expressions of Concern GA/PAL/1157 United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People Analyses Current State, Future of Economy SG/SM/12805-GA/PAL/1156 Gaza Closure Unacceptable, Unsustainable, Counterproductive, Secretary-General Tells United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People 23 March, 2010 GA/10927 High-Level Dialogue Hears Call for Reinvigorated Development Partnerships to Reverse Impact of Global Economic Crisis SG/SM/12803-GA/10928-DEV/2793 Spare Vulnerable Countries Onerous Aid Conditions, ‘Burdensome’ External Debt, Secretary-General Urges in Remarks to Dialogue on Financing for Development 22 March, 2010 DSG/SM/496-GA/10926 Deputy Secretary-General Spells out Widening Range of Risks to Global Water Resources, in Remarks to General Assembly High-Level Dialogue GA/10925 Sustainable Management of Water Resources Vital to Achieving Anti-Poverty Goals Delegates Told, As General Assembly High-Level Dialogue Marks World Water Day GA/PAL/1154 United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People to Be Held in Vienna 24-25 March 19 March, 2010 GA/AB/3944 Secretariat Accountability, Emergency Support Team, Joint Inspection Unit, Special Political Missions among Issues Addressed, as Budget Committee Approves 6 Texts GA/PAL/1153 Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee Gravely Concerned by Israel’s Ongoing Policy of Occupation, Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem GA/PK/205 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Encourages Continuation, Finalization of Peacekeeping Restructuring, as It Concludes Three-Week Session 18 March, 2010 GA/COL/3201 Pacific Regional Seminar to Be Held in Noumea, New Caledonia, 18-20 May, Special Committee on Decolonization Decides 16 March, 2010 GA/10922-DEV/2790 ‘We Must Not Fail the Billions Who Look to the International Community to Fulfil Promise of Millennium Declaration,’ Says Secretary-General in New Report GA/10924 General Assembly Urges Backing for Steps to Address Poverty Eradication in Africa, Private Sector Support, Market Access, Debt Relief, in Consensus Resolution GA/PAL/1152 Palestinian Rights Committee Considers Status of Effort to Launch Proximity Talks, Reviews Committee’s Activities, Looks Ahead to Next Week’s Seminar in Vienna SG/SM/12789-GA/10923-DEV/2791 Unmet Commitments, Inadequate Resources, Lack of Accountability Hampering Achievement of Millennium Development Goals, Says Secretary-General 10 March, 2010 GA/AB/3943 Budget Committee Takes Up Proposal for Emergency Preparedness and Support Unit, Hears Update from Controller on Addressing High-Priority Security Threats 5 March, 2010 GA/AB/3942 Budget Committee Takes Up Secretary-General’s Report on Proposed Accountability System for United Nations Secretariat 4 March, 2010 DSG/SM/492-GA/10921-DEV/2788 Millenium Declaration Inspired Great Hope, but Progress on Anti-Poverty Goals Must Accelerate to Make Good on Original Promise, Says Deputy Secretary-General 2 March, 2010 DSG/SM/491-GA/10919-WOM/1779 Empowerment of Women Not Just Goal in Itself, but Key to All Global Development Goals, says Deputy Secretary-General at General Assembly Commemoration GA/10918 Women’s Empowerment Key to Long-Term Development, Social Advancement for All, General Assembly Told, as It Marks Beijing Declaration’s 15th Anniversary GA/10920 General Assembly Adopts Text Proclaiming Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020), Aimed at Reducing Traffic-Related Deaths, Injuries GA/AB/3941 Budget Committee Takes Up Additional Financing for Three Political Missions 1 March, 2010 GA/AB/3940 Budget Committee Takes Up Report of Joint Inspection Unit, as It Begins Three-Week Resumed Session 26 February, 2010 GA/10917 General Assembly Requests Secretary-General to Submit Further Report on Investigations into Violations During Gaza Conflict 25 February, 2010 GA/COL/3199 Secretary-General Hails 2010 as Landmark Year for Special Committee on Decolonization in Message to Organizational Meeting GA/PAL/1151 Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Israel’s Announcement Concerning Religious Sites in Occupied Palestinian Territory SG/SM/12675-GA/COL/3200 Secretary-General, in Message, Commends Decolonization Committee for Achievements, Says ‘Creative Solutions’ Needed for Remaining 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories 23 February, 2010 GA/10916 General Assembly Recognizes 21 March as International Day of Nowruz, Also Changes to 23-24 March Dialogue on Financing for Development GA/PK/204 Special Committee Members Commend Performance of United Nations Peacekeepers Faced with Complex Mandates, Lacking Key Capabilities 22 February, 2010 GA/PK/203 Peacekeeping Chief Tells of Secretary-General’s ‘Ambitious Agenda’ for Post-Conflict Rebuilding, as Special Committee Opens Session 16 February, 2010 GA/PAL/1149 United States, Russian Federation Delegates Urge Resumption of Talks, at International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace GA/PAL/1150 Serious Concern Voiced at Prolonged Paralysis of Peace Process, as International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Concludes in Malta 12 February, 2010 GA/PAL/1146 Urgency of Addressing Permanent Status Issues Central to International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Under Way in Malta GA/PAL/1148 Pivotal Role of Each Permanent Status Issue Assessed as Starting Point for Talks, at Malta Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace SG/SM/12742-GA/PAL/1147 Secretary-General Says ‘Daunting Challenges’ Remain in Shared Quest for Middle East Peace, in Message to Malta Meeting 8 February, 2010 GA/10915 General Assembly Notes its President’s Appeal for Members States to Observe Olympic Truce, Strengthen Culture of Peace GA/PAL/1145 Urgency of Addressing Permanent Status Issues to Form Theme for International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, in Malta, 12-13 February 22 January, 2010 GA/10913 General Assembly Expresses Solidarity, Support for Haiti after Massive Earthquake; Appeals for Speedy, Sustainable Aid for Relief, Early Recovery, Reconstruction SG/SM/12713-GA/10914 Addressing General Assembly Meeting on Haiti, Secretary-General Spells Out Priorities in Responding to Disaster as Its Scale Becomes Clear 21 January, 2010 GA/PAL/1143 Secretary-General, Addressing Palestinian Rights Committee, Calls for Greater Engagement by Quartet Mediators in Continuing Quest for Two-State Solution SG/SM/12712-GA/PAL/1144 In Remarks to Palestinian Rights Committee, Secretary-General Warns Forward Movement Needed Soon on Middle East Peace Process, or ‘We Risk Sliding Backwards’ 13 January, 2010 SG/SM/12701-GA/10912 Secretary-General, Briefing General Assembly on Haiti Disaster, Announces Release of $10 Million in Emergency Funds to Kick-Start Response 28 December, 2009 GA/10911 During Global Financial Turmoil, General Assembly Worked to Bolster Equity in Decision-Making for All Nations, Restore Faith in Multilateral System 24 December, 2009 SG/SM/12687/Rev.1-GA/10910/Rev.1 Secretary-General Expresses Appreciation for Approval of 2010-2011 Budget 23 December, 2009 GA/10909 General Assembly Adopts $5.16 Billion Budget for 2010-2011, Maintains Current Scale of Assessments for Regular Budget, Peacekeeping, Concluding Main Part of Session GA/AB/3939 Fifth Committee, Concluding Session, Recommends 2010-2011 Budget of $5.16 Billion, Current Assessment Scales for Regular Budget, Peacekeeping Contributions 22 December, 2009 GA/10908 General Assembly Calls for Urgent Implementation of Proposals to Assist Survivors of 1994 Rwandan Genocide, including Medical Care, Skills Training, Victim Support 21 December, 2009 GA/10907 General Assembly Adopts Landmark Resolutions in Bid to Promote Recovery from Global Economic Crisis, Tackle Challenges to Long-Term Growth 18 December, 2009 GA/10905 General Assembly Adopts 56 Resolutions, 9 Decisions Recommended by Third Committee on Broad Range of Human Rights, Social, Cultural Issues GA/10906 General Assembly Proclaims 2010 International Year of Youth, to Encourage Dialogue, Understanding across Generations GA/AB/3938 Budget Committee Approves Texts Addressing Administration of Justice, Pattern of Conferences, United Nations Common System 17 December, 2009 GA/AB/3937 Budget Committee Takes Up Proposed $600 Million in Financing for 27 Special Political Missions in 2010 16 December, 2009 GA/10904 Criminal Accountability of UN Officials, Terrorism Convention, UN Internal Justice Among Issues, as General Assembly Adopts 17 Texts Recommended by Legal Committee 15 December, 2009 GA/PAL/1142 Israel’s Violations Risk Undermining International Legal System, Warns Statement Adopted by Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee 14 December, 2009 GA/L/3383 Legal Committee Approves Draft Resolution Recommending Observer Status for Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean 11 December, 2009 GA/10903 General Assembly Reaffirms Strong Support for Kimberley Process Certification Scheme Aimed at Ensuring Diamonds ‘Conflict Free’ GA/EF/3275 Second Committee Approves Text Expressing Deep Concern over Impact of Global Economic Crisis on International Trade 10 December, 2009 GA/10901 General Assembly President Says Human Rights Fundamental ‘Pillar’ of United Nations, at Meeting to Mark End of International Year of Human Rights Learning GA/10902 General Assembly Adopts 28 Draft Texts on Fourth Committee’s Recommendation GA/AB/3936 Budget Committee Takes Up Proposed 2010-2011 Financing for International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia 9 December, 2009 GA/EF/3274 Second Committee Approves Text Urging Elimination of Unilateral Economic, Political Coercion against Developing Countries GA/L/3382 Legal Committee Debates Texts on Observer Status for Council of Presidents of the General Assembly, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean 7 December, 2009 GA/10900 General Assembly, Stressing Seriousness of Climate Change, Urges Member States to Approach Copenhagen Conference with ‘Ambition, Optimism and Determination’ GA/AB/3934 Budget Committee Takes up Construction Projects at Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Office in Nairobi SG/SM/12658-GA/AB/3935 Secretary-General Spells Out Priorities for 2010-2011 Biennium in Remarks to Administrative and Budgetary Committee 4 December, 2009 GA/10899 General Assembly Adopts Two Wide-Ranging Resolutions Aimed at Strengthening World’s Legal Regime for Oceans; Protecting Fisheries, Marine Ecosystems GA/EF/3273 Second Committee Forwards 11 Drafts to General Assembly, on New Global Economic Order, Agricultural Technology for Development, Climate Change, among Others 3 December, 2009 GA/AB/3933 Budget Committee Decision Recommends New Staff Rules Remain Provisional, Pending Further Consideration at Next Session 2 December, 2009 GA/10896 Following Two-Day Debate, General Assembly Adopts Six Draft Resolutions on Question of Palestine, Middle East GA/10897-PAL/2127 United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees Holds Pledging Conference Amid Serious Concerns over Funding Shortfalls Threatening to Cripple Field Operations GA/10898 On Recommendation of First Committee, General Assembly Adopts 54 Texts, Sets Aside Four Weeks in 2012 to Hammer Out Legally Binding Arms Trade Treaty 1 December, 2009 GA/10895 General Assembly Concludes Debates on Question of Palestine, Situation in Middle East, Deferring Action on Resolutions until Wednesday GA/EF/3272 General Assembly Will Accept Turkey’s Offer to Host Fourth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in 2011, by Second Committee Text 30 November, 2009 GA/10894 Nearly Year after Israel’s Gaza Military Offensive, Sustained Focus Needed to Revive Stagnant Peace Talks, Create Conditions for Broader Peace, General Assembly Told GA/PAL/1140 Secretary-General, on Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, Expresses Deep Concern in Committee at Year-Long Suspension of Talks on Two-State Solution SG/SM/12636-GA/PAL/1141-OBV/837 Those Who Undermine Peace by Violence or Changing Facts on Ground Must Not Set Agenda, Secretary-General Tells Palestinian Meeting 25 November, 2009 GA/EF/3271 Second Committee Approves Texts on Sustainable Mountain Development, Landlocked Developing Countries, Cyber Security 24 November, 2009 GA/AB/3932 Fifth Committee Approves Liquidation Budget for Terminated Georgia Mission, Takes Up Financing for Proposed Enterprise Resource Planning System GA/PAL/1139-OBV/834 Committee to Hold Special Meeting on 30 November to Observe International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People GA/SHC/3970 Girl Child, Eliminating Racism, Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism among Issues, as Third Committee Approves Five More Texts, Concludes Session 23 November, 2009 GA/SHC/3969 Third Committee Decision Welcomes Outcome of Durban Review Conference, One of Six Texts Recommended to General Assembly for Adoption 20 November, 2009 GA/10893 Applauding Peacebuilding Commission’s Early Successes, Speakers in Assembly Stress Fine-Tuning Still Needed to Enhance Results on Ground in Post-Conflict Countries GA/SHC/3968 Acting on 20th Anniversary of Child Rights Convention, Third Committee Approves Annual Resolution on Rights of the Child by Consensus SG/SM/12617-GA/10892-ENV/DEV/1092 More Ambitious Agreement in Copenhagen Can More Quickly Be Codified in Treaty, Says Secretary-General to General Assembly Informal Meeting 19 November, 2009 GA/10889 Member States Consider Ways to Energize, Fully Engage Powers of General Assembly, Pledge to Restore Institutional Balance with Other United Nations Bodies GA/10890 Dismissing Reports That Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Come up Short, Secretary-General Says Stage Will Be Set for Binding Treaty ‘As Soon as Possible in 2010’ GA/EF/3270 Second Committee, in Consensus Actions, Approves Texts on South-South Cooperation, Postponement of High-level Financing for Development Dialogue GA/SHC/3967 General Assembly Will Adopt Declaration, Strategy to Counter World Drug Problem under Terms of Draft Resolution Approved by Third Committee GA/SPD/445 Concluding Its Work for Session, Fourth Committee Approves 11 More Drafts, Bringing to 28 Total Number of Texts Forwarded to General Assembly SG/SM/12616-GA/10891-ENV/DEV/1091 In Copenhagen, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Meeting, Solid Foundation Will Be Laid for Progress, Binding Treaty Reached in 2010 17 November, 2009 GA/AB/3931 Budget Committee Takes Up Reports on Staff Rules for New Contractual Arrangements, Secretariat Make-up, Ethics Office, Disciplinary Matters, Continuing Contracts GA/EF/3269 Second Committee Approves Text Reiterating General Assembly’s Deep Concern at Oil Slick Arising from Israel’s Destruction of Lebanese Storage Tanks 16 November, 2009 GA/10888 General Assembly Considers Draft Text on Return, Restitution of Cultural Property 13 November, 2009 GA/10887 Convinced That Expanding Size of Security Council is an Absolute Necessity Member States Discuss Ways to Carry Out ‘Delicate Engineering Project’ 12 November, 2009 GA/10886 As General Assembly Opens Annual Debate on Security Council Reform, Delegations Pledge to Keep Pushing for Equitable Solution to End Years-Long Deadlock GA/EF/3268 Second Committee Approves Text Demanding That Israel Stop Exploiting, Depleting, Endangering Natural Resources in Occupied Arab Lands GA/L/3381 Legal Committee, Ending Work for Session, Seeks Continued Efforts by United States to Safeguard Interests of Diplomatic Personnel GA/SHC/3966 Third Committee Approves Resolution Aimed at ‘Combating Defamation of Religions’, One of 16 Draft Texts Recommended to General Assembly 10 November, 2009 GA/10885 General Assembly Declares 18 July ‘Nelson Mandela International Day’ GA/AB/3930 Budget Committee Is Told of Progress in Construction Phase of Capital Master Plan for Renovation of United Nations Headquarters Complex GA/EF/3267 Ten Draft Resolutions on Sustainable Development among 14 Submitted for Consideration, Action by Second Committee GA/PAL/1138 Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Question of Palestine for Adoption by General Assembly GA/SHC/3965 Saying Torture Can ‘Never Be Justified,’ Third Committee Approves Text Condemning Any Attempt to Legalize, Authorize, Including on National Security Grounds GA/SPD/444 International Community Not Lacking Standards in Middle East, but Effort to Implement Them, Fourth Committee Told in Debate on Israeli Practices 9 November, 2009 GA/10884 In Consensus Resolution, General Assembly Welcomes August Elections in Afghanistan as First Poll Run Entirely Under Auspices of Afghan Authorities GA/SPD/443 ‘Not For a Single Moment’ Has Israel Ceased Illegal Settlement Activities, Fourth Committee Told, Opening Discussion of Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories 6 November, 2009 GA/AB/3929 Budget Committee Recommends Appointments to Subsidiary Bodies GA/EF/3266 Conflicts over Water Have Potential to Be Catalyst for Peace, Cooperation, Specialist Tells Second Committee Panel Discussion 5 November, 2009 GA/10883 By Recorded Vote, General Assembly Urges Israel, Palestinians to Conduct Credible, Independent Investigations into Alleged War Crimes in Gaza GA/AB/3928 Committee for Programme and Coordination Reaffirmed as Main Subsidiary Organ for Planning, Coordination in Text Approved by Budget Committee GA/EF/3265 Participation by All Stakeholders Crucial to Meeting Millennium Goals, Second Committee Told during Discussion on Global Partnerships 4 November, 2009 GA/10882 ‘Leave All Politics and Selectivity at the Door and Take up the Cause of Justice,’ Urges General Assembly President, as Body Takes Up Report on Gaza Conflict GA/EF/3264 Second Committee Told That 35 Million New Homes Must Be Built Annually over Next Quarter Century To Accommodate Soaring Urban Populations GA/L/3380 Legal Committee Is Told Law of Sea Tribunal, with Likely Greater Need for Maritime Adjudications, Raising Visibility 3 November, 2009 GA/10881 General Assembly Fills Vacancies on Subsidiary Bodies GA/EF/3263 Some 400 Million People Could Join Ranks of Slum Dwellers by 2020 Unless Urgent Action Is Taken to Reverse Trend, UN–Habitat Tells Second Committee GA/L/3379 Legal Committee Is Told ‘Extradite or Prosecute’ Obligation Is Key Issue in Campaign against Impunity for Crimes GA/SHC/3964 Five ‘Mega-Trends” -- including Population Growth, Urbanization, Climate Change -- Make Contemporary Displacement Increasingly Complex, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/442 Success of UN Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees Also Sign of Collective Failure to Resolve Political Question That Led to Refugee Crisis, Fourth Committee Hears 2 November, 2009 GA/10880 ‘We Must Let Diplomacy and Thorough Verification Take Their Course’, No Matter How Lengthy, Tiresome Process Might Be, International Atomic Energy Chief Says GA/DIS/3403 Reframing Disarmament Debate in First Committee, Strengthening Multilateralism Advanced Momentum, Led to Approval of 54 Drafts, Chair Says as Session Closes GA/EF/3262 Acceptance of Lesser Climate Deal Will Threaten Existence of Small Islands, Second Committee Told, As It Begins Sustainable Development Debate GA/L/3378 Legal Committee Begins Work on Issues of Extradition, Durability of Treaties, ‘Most Favoured-Nation’ Trading Policies GA/SHC/3963 Third Committee Speakers Say Durban Review Conference Start of New Era in Fight against Racial Discrimination GA/SPD/441 Funding Shortfall for United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency Risks Suspension of Essential Services before End of Year, Agency Head Tells Fourth Committee 30 October, 2009 GA/10879 General Assembly Considers Annual Report of Human Rights Council GA/AB/3927 Fifth Committee Speakers Say ‘Catchword’ of Zero Growth for UN Budget Having Negative Impact on Programmes, Mandates, as Two-Day Discussion Concludes GA/DIS/3402 Sending Six Drafts to General Assembly, First Committee Calls for International Day for World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Conference on Arms Trade Treaty in 2012 GA/EF/3260 New Governance Regime under Way, Experts Say as Second Committee Holds Panel Discussion on Revitalizing Global Financial System GA/EF/3261 Working Out Differences at Doha Talks Would Be in Best Interest of All Countries, Pakistan Says, as Second Committee Concludes Debate on Trade, Development GA/L/3377 Legal Committee Is Told Judges from Different Fields Reach Common Understanding on Increasingly Complex Global Issues GA/SPD/440 Fourth Committee Sends Draft on Assistance in Mine Action to General Assembly, Aimed at Reducing Risks Posed by Landmines, Explosive Remnants of War 29 October, 2009 GA/10878 Presidents of International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice, Present Annual Reports to General Assembly GA/AB/3925 Secretary-General Introduces $4.89 Billion 2010-2011 Budget to Fifth Committee, Says Will Work with Member States ‘in Full Partnership’ on Final Document GA/DIS/3401 First Committee Advances Bold, Sweeping Plans to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Arsenals, Build Confidence, Boost Transparency, Submitting Nine Texts to General Assembly GA/EF/3259 International Community Must Fight Protectionism to Ease Effects of Global Financial Crisis, General Assembly’s Economic Committee Is Told GA/SHC/3962 Third Committee Approves Resolution Calling for ‘Intensified Efforts’ by All UN Bodies to Eliminate Violence against Women GA/SPD/439 Efforts Bearing Fruit to End Landmine Scourge, as 41 Million in Stockpiles Destroyed Since 2008, Assistant Secretary-General Tells Fourth Committee SG/SM/12576-GA/AB/3926 Secretary-General Presents United Nations 2010-2011 Budget to Fifth Committee 28 October, 2009 GA/10877 General Assembly, for Eighteenth Consecutive Year, Overwhelmingly Calls for End to United States Economic, Trade Embargo against Cuba GA/AB/3924 Budget Committee Takes Up United Nations Procurement, with Top Official Describing Spike in Volume during Surge in Peacekeeping GA/DIS/3400 Disarmament Committee Sends 25 Texts to General Assembly, Seeking to Avert Outer Space Arms Race, Unilateral Actions, Unverified Non-Compliance Accusations GA/EF/3258 Information, Communications Technologies Have Tremendous Potential to Promote Development, Bring Countries out of Poverty, Economic Committee Told GA/L/3376 Legal Committee Reviews Right of Parties to Express Reservations on Treaty Provisions, or Make ‘Interpretative Declarations’ GA/SHC/3961 Speakers in Third Committee Draw Links between Fight to Secure Human Rights, Fight against Poverty, as Three-Day Discussion Concludes GA/SPD/438 Choice Is Clear: Stall Urgent Peacekeeping Reforms or ‘Bite the Bullet’ for Sake of Peacekeepers Who Sacrifice under United Nations Flag, Fourth Committee Told 27 October, 2009 GA/10876 Amid Major Global Financial Contraction, Economic and Social Council Opening ‘New Vistas’ to Strengthen United Nations Coordinated Response to Crises GA/DIS/3399 Gravely Concerned at Danger of Possible Nuclear Weapons Use, First Committee Draft Resolution Calls on States to Prevent Proliferation, Promote Nuclear Disarmament GA/EF/3256 Economic Committee Holds Dialogue with Senior Officials from United Nations Regional Commissions on ‘Economic Impacts of Climate Change’ GA/EF/3257 Assembly’s Economic Committee Is Told of Harsh Conditions Persisting in Occupied Territories because of Israeli Actions GA/L/3375 International Law Commission Is Asked to Continue Review of Working Methods, Seek Topics Closer to Present-Day Concerns GA/SHC/3960 UN Expert Tells Third Committee No State Free from Human Rights Violations, Accountability System Must Be Effective in as Many States as Possible GA/SPD/437 As United Nations Strives to Keep Pace with Peacekeeping Demands, Fourth Committee Speakers Say Blue Helmets Need Clear Guidance for Protection of Civilians Mandates 26 October, 2009 GA/10875 General Assembly Elects 18 Members to Economic and Social Council GA/EF/3255 With Copenhagen Conference Pending, Assembly’s Economic Committee Is Told ‘No Conflict’ Between Prosperity and Ambitious Climate Policies GA/L/3374 Responsibility of International Organizations Is Focus of Legal Committee at Start of Annual Review of Law Commission Activities GA/SHC/3959 Political Affairs Head Says UN Efforts to Assist Elections in ‘High Demand’ as Third Committee’s Debate on Promotion of Human Rights Continues GA/SPD/436 Logistical Support, Force Protection, ‘Clear, Structured and Sustainable Mandates’ Backed by Whole Security Council Required for Peacekeeping, Fourth Committee Told 23 October, 2009 GA/AB/3923 Budget Committee Approves Text on Board of Auditor’s Report concerning Refugee Office, Continues Debate on United Nations Financial Situation GA/DIS/3398 Barriers Blocking Disarmament Negotiations Beginning to Yield, First Committee Told, Examining Strength of Disarmament Machinery Following Years of Paralysis GA/EF/3254 Economic Committee Is Told Strategy Urgently Needed to Meet Worsening Global Food Crisis; Aid, Trade Adjustments Among Proposals Offered GA/L/3373 Legal Committee Recommends Three Groups for Assembly Observer Status Some Delegates Suggest Procedure for Such Action May Need Adjustment GA/SHC/3958 Third Committee Hears Presentations from Six UN Human Rights Experts, As Debate on Promotion, Protection of Human Rights Continues GA/SPD/435 It May Not Generate Headlines, but United Nations Peacekeeping Succeeds Quietly, Every Day Mitigating Harm to Thousands of Civilians, Fourth Committee Told 22 October, 2009 GA/DIS/3397 Robust Regional Action, Combined with Strict Compliance with Arms Control Accords, Contains Arms Races, First Committee Told during Debate on Regional Disarmament GA/EF/3253 Despite Observance of Anti-Poverty Day, Huge Populations Still Afflicted by Hunger and Extreme Deprivation, Economic Committee Is Reminded GA/SHC/3957 Third Committee Approves Texts on Crime Congress, Cooperatives, Year of Family, Women’s Anti-Discrimination Convention, African Crime Institute, Ageing GA/SPD/434 Space Technologies of Infinite Value, but Carry Double-Edged Potential for Good or Evil, Fourth Committee Hears, Warned of Possible Militarization of Space 21 October, 2009 GA/10874 Speakers Call for Scaled-Up Resources to Help Meet 2010 Goal on Malaria Control, as General Assembly Concludes Debate on Africa’s Development Needs GA/DIS/3396 Time for General Discussion on Arms Trade Treaty Is Over, First Committee Hears, Seeking in One of Five Drafts to Prevent Diversion of Weapons to Illicit Market GA/EF/3252 Economic Committee Is Told ‘Illicit Financial Flows’ Major Obstacle to Development, Reportedly Far Exceeding Official Assistance GA/L/3372 Legal Committee Is Told ‘Principle of Universal Jurisdiction’ Needs to Be Defined, to Avoid Possible Abuses, Politicization GA/SHC/3956 Ordinary People Throughout World Want Human Rights of Universal Declaration ‘Translated into Reality’, UN High Commissioner Tells Third Committee GA/SPD/433 Debating Outer Space Cooperation, Fourth Committee Hears Growing Number of Actors in Outer Space Could Risk Security of Space Assets, Limit Scope of Peaceful Uses 20 October, 2009 GA/10873 Assembly President Calls for Creating Environment Conducive for Africa’s Long-term Socio-economic Development, ‘With a Sense of Urgency Backed by Concrete Actions’ GA/AB/3922 Budget Committee Takes Up Report of International Civil Service Commission; End-of-Service Severance, Changes to Retirement Age among Issues GA/DIS/3395 Divergent Paths Emerge as First Committee Debates Issues of Cluster Munitions, Transparency of Weapons Sales, Viability of International Arms Trade Treaty GA/EF/3251 Economic Committee Is Told Industrial Countries Must Step Up Aid to World’s Poorest, Suffering Most from Global Financial Crisis GA/L/3371 Legal Committee Delegates See Principle of Universal Law as Safeguard against Impunity for Major Crimes; Some Caution on Risk of Abuse GA/SHC/3955 Convention against Torture ‘Next Generation Treaty’ That Places Value on Prevention over Cure, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/432 Fourth Committee, Taking Up Outer Space Item, Hears Space Technology Could Combat, Even Forecast, Spread of Disease, Ensuring Health of Current, Future Generations 19 October, 2009 GA/10872 General Assembly Calls upon All Member States to Uphold Olympic Truce during Vancouver Winter Games, Cooperate in Efforts to Use Sport as Tool for Peace GA/DIS/3394 First Committee Wraps Up Debate on Disarmament Aspects of Outer Space, Opens Discussion on Conventional Weapons, Hearing Introduction of Six Draft Texts GA/EF/3250 With ‘Tough Decisions Ahead’ on Tackling Impacts of Climate Change, United Nations Official Urges Political Leadership, Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction GA/L/3370 Legal Committee Hears Concerns over Unintended Results of Security Council Sanctions; Need to Protect Civilians, ‘Third Countries’ Stressed GA/SHC/3954 Implementing Declaration on Indigenous Rights Will Bring ‘Historical Justice’, Develop Stronger, Democratic, Multicultural Societies, Third Committee Told 16 October, 2009 GA/AB/3921 Under-Secretary-General for Management Presents ‘Mixed Picture’ of United Nations Financial Situation, in Briefing to Budget Committee GA/DIS/3393 Chemical Weapons Ban Took a Century to Enact, But ‘Living Example’ of Success in Field, First Committee Told, Taking Up Weapons of Mass Destruction Debate GA/EF/3249 Economic Committee Is Told of Despair in Some Developing Countries as Poor People Grapple with Debt Problems, Legal Complications GA/SHC/3953 Credibility of States ‘Rested in Their Work for Future Generations’; Children Must Be Protected, Nurtured, Encouraged to Participate, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/431 Fourth Committee Delegates Urge More Funding for Scientific Committee to Enable It to Assess Emerging Risks of Atomic Radiation on Human Health, Environment 15 October, 2009 GA/10871 General Assembly Elects Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon, Nigeria to Two-Year Terms on Security Council GA/DIS/3392 First Committee Hears Introduction of Five Drafts, Detailed Accounts by Russian Federation, United States of Reductions in Nuclear Warheads, Ballistic Missiles GA/EF/3248 Developing Countries, Hardest Hit by Global Financial Crisis, Urgently Need Pledged Assistance, Assembly’s Economic Committee Is Told GA/L/3369 Legal Committee, by Decision without Vote, Recommends International Olympic Committee for General Assembly Observer Status GA/SHC/3952 Third Committee Approves Texts on Commemoration of 15th Anniversary of Beijing Declaration, Technical Assistance for Implementing Terrorism Conventions GA/SPD/430 Fourth Committee, Reaffirming United Nations as Indispensable Foundation of Peaceful, Just World, Says Voice Must Be Heard Clearly, Effectively 14 October, 2009 DSG/SM/475-GA/L/3368 Deputy Secretary-General, in Remarks to Assembly’s Legal Committee, Reviews Ongoing United Nations Activity in Field of ‘Rule of Law’ GA/DIS/3391 Proposal for International Day to Rid World of Nuclear Weapons Submitted in First Committee, with Traditional Text on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere GA/EF/3247 Speakers Say Funding for UN Development Activities Inadequate, Too Unpredictable, as Economic Committee Takes up Operational Activities for Development GA/L/3367 Progress in Adherence to ‘Rule of Law’ Standards Reported to Assembly’s Legal Committee, but Inadequacies Are Noted in Some Areas GA/SHC/3951 Urgent Action Needed by World Community to Stamp Out Violence against Children, Newly Appointed Special Representative Tells Third Committee GA/SPD/429 UN Information Centres Central to Quest to Familiarize World with United Nations, Fourth Committee Hears, Also Approving Two Final Texts on Decolonization 13 October, 2009 GA/10870 Speakers in Assembly Urge Support for Maternal Health, Reproductive Services, Backing Goals of 1994 International Conference on Population and Development GA/AB/3920 Budget Committee Takes up Reports concerning Office for Partnerships, Committee for Programme and Coordination GA/DIS/3390 Efforts to Stem Spread of Violence, Armed Conflict Finds Diverse Allies, Boosting Chances of Achieving Disarmament Goals, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee GA/EF/3245 Countries Must Step Up Efforts to Address Essential, but Unresolved Issues in Advance of Climate Change Conference, Experts Tell Second Committee GA/EF/3246 Economic Committee Is Told Special Needs of African Countries in Ongoing Global Financial Crisis Call for Range of Remedies GA/L/3366 Need for Accountability Stressed as Legal Committee Considers Issue of Criminal Conduct by UN Personnel on Mission GA/SHC/3950 Efforts to Empower Women, Initiatives to Promote Sustainable Economic Growth Mutually Reinforcing, Say Third Committee Speakers GA/SPD/428 United Nations Future Depends on Joint Vision, Shared Responsibilities; Public Information Department Stands Ready to Contribute, Says Communications Chief 12 October, 2009 GA/10869 Secretary-General Urges Renewed Commitment to Gender Equality, Reproductive Health Rights, Marking 15th Anniversary of Cairo Population and Development Conference GA/DIS/3389 New Brand of Nuclear Arms Race, Ballooning Defence Budgets, Still-Full Nuclear Arsenals Challenge Renewal of Non-Proliferation Regime, First Committee Hears GA/EF/3243 World Must Act Now to Achieve Anti-Poverty Goals by Honouring Fiscal Commitments, Standing by Pledges to Fund Implementation of Targets, Second Committee Told GA/EF/3244 Measures to Ease Plight of Developing Countries in Ongoing Global Financial Crisis Discussed in Assembly’s Economic Committee GA/L/3365 Agreement on Cross-Border Insolvency Issue Applauded in Legal Committee as Key Achievement of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law GA/SHC/3949 Third Committee Delegates Encourage Speedy Implementation of Proposal for New, Composite United Nations Body to Oversee Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment GA/SPD/427 Fourth Committee, Recommending 10 Texts to General Assembly, Calls on Governments to End Enterprises in Non-Self-Governing Territories Detrimental to Inhabitants 9 October, 2009 GA/DIS/3388 New Winds Blowing through the Halls of Disarmament, but Real Menace -– Small Arms, Light Weapons -- Destabilizing Societies Everywhere, First Committee Told GA/EF/3242 Food Production Must Double by 2050 to Meet Demand from World’s Growing Population, Innovative Strategies Needed to Combat Hunger, Experts Tell Second Committee GA/L/3364 Ending Debate on Measures against Terrorism, Legal Committee is Told Aim Should Be to Combat Global Scourge, ‘Not to Attack a People’ GA/SPD/426 Decolonization Was United Nations ‘Success Story,’ but Renewed Momentum Was Needed on Behalf of 16 Remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories, Fourth Committee Told 8 October, 2009 GA/10868 Presidents of Tribunals for Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, Nearing Completion Dates, Appeal for Cooperation on Arrest of Fugitives, Compensation for Dedicated Staff GA/DIS/3387 Exploiting Renewed Focus on Nuclear Disarmament Requires Political Will, Reversal of Past Policies, Understanding New Dynamics Among Nations, First Committee Told GA/SHC/3948 Successful Fight against Drug Trafficking, Transnational Organized Crime Requires Interlocking National, Regional, International Strategies, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/425 Fourth Committee Hears Over 30 Petitioners on Question of Western Sahara 7 October, 2009 GA/AB/3919 Budget Committee Takes Up Reports of Three Oversight Bodies – Board of Auditors, Office of Internal Oversight, Independent Audit Advisory Committee GA/DIS/3386 For First Time in Years, Notion of Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Supported by Leaders of All Major Industrialized Countries, Disarmament Committee Hears in Debate GA/EF/3241 Member States Urged to Step Up Efforts to Stop Global Warming, Seal Comprehensive Deal on Mitigation, Adaptation, as Second Committee Concludes General Debate GA/L/3363 General Assembly’s Legal Committee Hears More Calls for Strong Responses to Terrorism, While Taking Account of Sources of Grievance GA/SHC/3947 ‘Sinister Nexus’ of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism Must Be Countered by Promoting Health, Justice, Security, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/424 Hearing Petitioners on Questions of Gibraltar, Guam, Western Sahara, Fourth Committee Continues Decolonization Debate 6 October, 2009 GA/10867 Taking Up Secretary-General’s Report on Work of Organization, Member States Back Call for Renewed Multilateralism, Say Tackling Crises Requires ‘Unity of Purpose’ GA/AB/3918 Fifth Committee Takes up Scale of Assessments for Determining Member State Contributions to 2010-2012 Peacekeeping Budget GA/DIS/3385 One Nuclear Weapon Exploded in One Major City Could Kill Hundreds of Thousands; No Single Nation Could Halt Spread Alone, United States Tells First Committee GA/EF/3240 Global Food Crisis ‘A Wake-Up Call’ For Revitalization Of Agricultural Production, Second Committee Told As It Continues General Debate GA/L/3362 General Assembly Legal Committee Hears Calls for Renewed Efforts to Complete Comprehensive Convention against Terrorism GA/SHC/3946 Strengthening Well-Being of Youth Not Just a Question of Rights; Should Be Key Strategy in Bolstering Vitality of Global Village, Third Committee Told GA/SPD/423 Fourth Committee Hears from Petitioners on Questions of New Caledonia, United States Virgin Islands, Western Sahara, as Decolonization Debate Continues 5 October, 2009 DSG/SM/473-GA/EF/3239 Deputy Secretary-General, in Remarks to Second Committee, Outlines United Nations Coordinated Responses to Address Climate Change, Food Insecurity, Other Crises GA/AB/3917 Budget Committee Takes Up Scale for Assessing Member States Dues for 2010-2013, with Speakers Stressing Importance of ‘Capacity to Pay’ Principle GA/DIS/3384 Disarmament Remains ‘Burning Problem of Our Time’, But Today’s World Capable of Solving Problem, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee as Debate Opens GA/EF/3238 Deputy Secretary-General Spells Out Organization’s Joint Initiatives in Response to Multiple Crises, as Second Committee Begins Sixty-fourth Session GA/L/3361 General Assembly’s Legal Committee Reviews New, Comprehensive System for Administration of Justice at United Nations GA/PAL/1136 Palestinian Rights Committee Adopts Annual Report, Noting Concern at Israeli Settlement Activity, Other Issues GA/PAL/1137 Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee Says Situation in Occupied East Jerusalem ‘Deeply Disturbing’ GA/SHC/3945 World Economic Crisis Could Have ‘Unparalleled Negative Consequences’ on Human Development, Third Committee Told, as Debate Begins for Current Session GA/SPD/422 Remaining 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories on United Nations List Are ‘16 Too Many’, Fourth Committee Told, As It Takes Up Cluster of Decolonization Issues 1 October, 2009 GA/AB/3916 Budget Committee Holds Organizational Session GA/DIS/3383 Disarmament Committee Prepares for Start of General Debate on Monday, 5 October, with Adoption of Agenda, Work Programme, in Brief Organizational Meeting GA/SPD/421 Approving Work Programme, Fourth Committee Agrees to Consider Decolonization, University of Peace, Outer Space, Atomic Radiation Items 29 September, 2009 GA/10866 Decrying Economic System, Which Promotes ‘Hoarding of Wealth by the Few,’ Speakers from Developing Countries Demand More Input into Global Decision-Making 28 September, 2009 GA/10865 Demanding Reforms, Speakers Say Outdated United Nations Structure Leaves Organization Ill-Equipped to Address Twenty-first Century Realities 26 September, 2009 GA/10864 Small Island States Warn Ecosystems Already Threatened by Climate Change Effects, Urge Drastic Reduction in Greenhouse Gases, as Assembly Continues Debate 25 September, 2009 GA/10863 Leaders from Developing World Vow to Win Struggle to Ensure Democracy, Peace, Development with Help of United Nations, as Assembly Debate Continues 24 September, 2009 GA/10862 Inclusive Multilateralism, Fully Democratic United Nations Needed to Combat Poverty, Terrorism, Other Threats, Speakers Tell Assembly General Debate 23 September, 2009 GA/10860 With Crises in Food, Energy, Recession Hitting All at Once, ‘the World Looks to Us for Answers’, Secretary-General Says, Opening General Debate SG/SM/12475-GA/10861 Secretary-General Cites Climate Change, Disarmament, World Poverty among Top Priorities for Action as He Presents Report to General Assembly 18 September, 2009 GA/10859 General Assembly Adopts Work Programme for Sixty-Fourth Session 17 September, 2009 GA/EF/3237 Poverty Eradication, Climate Change, International Financial System among Key Agenda Items as Second Committee Approves Organization of Work GA/PAL/1135 Palestinian Rights Committee Discusses Developments in Occupied Territory, Political Process, Report of United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Gaza 15 September, 2009 BIO/4124-GA/10858 Ali Abdussalam Treki of Libya President of Sixty-Fourth General Assembly BIO/4125-GA/DIS/3382 José Luis Cancela of Uruguay Chair of First Committee BIO/4126-GA/EF/3236 Park In-kook of Republic of Korea Elected Chair of Second Committee BIO/4127-GA/SHC/3944 Normans Penke of Lativia Chair of Third Committee BIO/4128-GA/SPD/420 Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar Chair of Fourth Committee BIO/4129-GA/AB/3915 Peter Maurer of Switzerland Chair of Fifth Committee BIO/4130-GA/L/3360 Mourad Benmehidi of Algeria Chair of Sixth Committee GA/10857 General Assembly President Says Dialogue through United Nations, Revitalized Assembly, ‘Is the Way to a Better Future’, as Sixty-Fourth Session Opens SG/SM/12454-GA/10856 Secretary-General Welcomes General Assembly Resolution on System-Wide Coherence, Particularly Proposal for Stronger ‘Composite Entity’ to Promote Women’s Rights 14 September, 2009 GA/10854 General Assembly President Says United Nations Must Be Urgently ‘Reinvented', As Time for Reform Has Passed, in Closing Statement to 63rd Session SG/SM/12452-GA/10855 Secretary-General Welcomes Adoption of Text on Responsibility to Protect 9 September, 2009 GA/10853 General Assembly Adopts Text Recognizing Right of Return of Internally Displaced Persons throughout Georgia, Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia 11 August, 2009 GA/10852 General Assembly Reschedules 60th Anniversary Commemoration of Palestine Refugee Agency, Adds to Agenda Requests from Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda 31 July, 2009 GA/10851 General Assembly to Establish Working Group to Follow Up Matters Discussed During Conference on Impact of World Financial and Economic Crisis 28 July, 2009 GA/10850 Delegates Weigh Legal Merits of Responsibility to Protect Concept as General Assembly Concludes Debate 24 July, 2009 GA/10849 More Than 40 Delegates Express Strong Scepticism, Full Support as General Assembly Continues Debate on Responsibility to Protect 23 July, 2009 GA/10847 Delegates Seek to End Global Paralysis in Face of Atrocities as General Assembly Holds Interactive Dialogue on Responsibility to Protect GA/10848 General Assembly Adopts Resolution Stressing Critical Need for Regional Approach to Conflict Prevention in Africa 22 July, 2009 SG/SM/12378-GA/PAL/1134 Secretary-General, in Message to International Meeting on Palestine Question, Tells of Efforts to Create Conditions for Early Conclusion of Negotiations 21 July, 2009 GA/10845 Never Forget Victims of Atrocities, Urges Secretary-General as He Opens Special General Assembly Session on Implementing Responsibility to Protect SG/SM/12374-GA/10846 Upcoming Debate on Responsibility to Protect Not About History, but Character of United Nations, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly 15 July, 2009 GA/PAL/1133 United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine to Consider Responsibility to Uphold International Humanitarian Law, in Geneva 22-23 July 14 July, 2009 GA/DIS/3381 First Committee Completes Bureau for Sixty-Fourth General Assembly Session 9 July, 2009 GA/10844 General Assembly Endorses World Financial Crisis Summit Outcome, Setting in Motion Sustained Follow-Up; Will Assess Millennium Summit’s Progress at 2010 Meeting 6 July, 2009 GA/10843 General Assembly Unanimously Confirms Supachai Panitchpakdi for Second Term as Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 30 June, 2009 GA/10841 General Assembly Adopts Peacekeeping Budget of Nearly $7.8 Billion for Period 1 July 2009 to 20 June 2010 GA/10842 General Assembly, Acting Unanimously, Condemns Coup d’État in Honduras, Demands Immediate, Unconditional Restoration of President 29 June, 2009 GA/10840 General Assembly President Expresses Outrage at Coup d’État in Honduras, Says Crucial for World Community to ‘Stand as One’ in Condemnation 25 June, 2009 GA/AB/3914 Fifth Committee Approves $7.8 Billion Peacekeeping Budget for Period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 23 June, 2009 GA/COL/3198 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Draft Resolution on Tokelau as It Concludes 2009 Resumed Session 19 June, 2009 GA/COL/3197 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Reaffirming Principle of Self-Determination as Fundamental Human Right 18 June, 2009 GA/10838 World Poised at Crossroads on Energy, with Directions Leading to Sustainable Future or Abyss, Says Secretary-General, as General Assembly Holds Thematic Dialogue GA/COL/3196 Special Committee on Decolonization Unanimously Approves Text Calling for Direct Negotiations over Falkland Islands (Malvinas) SG/SM/12324-EN/245-GA/10839 World at Crossroads between Abyss, More Sustainable, Prosperous Stability, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Thematic Dialogue on Energy 17 June, 2009 GA/10836 Halting Spread of HIV/AIDS Will Require Far Greater Access to Prevention Services, Treatment, Care, Support, Say Speakers as General Assembly Concludes Review GA/10837 Council of General Assembly Presidents Meets in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Discusses Climate Change, Millennium Goals, Global Financial Crisis GA/COL/3195 Special Committee Approves Texts on Implementation of Decolonization Declaration, Economic Activities Affecting Non-Self-Governing Peoples 16 June, 2009 GA/10833 Secretary-General Describes Promise in Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tells Member States ‘Now Is Not the Time to Falter’, as General Assembly Meets to Assess Progress GA/COL/3194 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Welcoming Developments in New Caledonia since 1998 Signing of Noumea Accord SG/SM/12320-AFR/1862-GA/10834 Omar Bongo Ondimba Was Force for Development, Stability in Central Africa, Says Secretary-General at General Assembly Tribute to Late President of Gabon SG/SM/12321-AIDS/151-GA/10835 Secretary-General, at General Assembly HIV/AIDS Review, Warns That Criminalizing Transmission Reduces Prevention Efforts while Reinforcing Stigma 15 June, 2009 GA/COL/3193 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Calling on United States to Expedite Self-Determination Process for Puerto Rico 10 June, 2009 GA/10831 By Acclamation, General Assembly Elects Veteran Libyan Diplomat to Preside over Its Sixty-Fourth Session GA/PAL/1132 Civil Society Makes Voices Heard During United Nations Public Forum in Support of Palestinian People SG/SM/12302-GA/10832 Welcoming Back Familiar Figure, Secretary-General Congratulates President of Sixty-Fourth General Assembly on His Election 9 June, 2009 GA/COL/3192 Special Committee on Decolonization Hears Petitioner from Gibraltar as Spain Opposes Its Removal from List of Non-Self-Governing Territories GA/PAL/1130 United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting on Question of Palestine Addresses Issue of Jerusalem GA/PAL/1131 United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting On Question of Palestine Expresses Strong Support for Two-State Solution 8 June, 2009 GA/COL/3191 Special Committee on Decolonization Approves 3 Draft Resolutions during Opening Meeting of Its 2009 Resumed Session GA/PAL/1128 United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting on Question of Palestine Opens in Jakarta, Indonesia GA/PAL/1129 United Nations Asia-Pacific Meeting on Question of Palestine Hears Expert Opinions on International Efforts to Achieve Peace SG/SM/12294-GA/PAL/1127 Secretary-General, Addressing Asia-Pacific Meeting on Question of Palestine, Voices Serious Concern about Gaza Situation, Israeli Actions in West Bank 5 June, 2009 GA/AB/3913 Fifth Committee Takes up Financing to Continue Logistical Support Package for African Union Mission in Somalia 4 June, 2009 GA/AB/3912 Fifth Committee Takes Up $68 Million Budget for Logistics Base in Brindisi GA/PAL/1126 United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting on Question of Palestine to Be Held in Jakarta, Indonesia, 8-9 June 3 June, 2009 GA/10830 General Assembly, Expressing Deep Concern, Invites Major United Nations Organs to Intensify Efforts in Addressing Security Implications of Climate Change GA/AB/3911 Budget Committee Takes up Financing for United Nations Missions in Kosovo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Western Sahara 2 June, 2009 GA/AB/3910 Fifth Committee Takes Up Proposed $768.2 Million Budget for United Nations Mission in Central African Republic and Chad 28 May, 2009 GA/AB/3909 Budget Committee Takes Up 2009/10 Financing for Interim Force in Lebanon 26 May, 2009 GA/10829 General Assembly Reschedules Conference on World Financial, Economic Crisis to 24-26 June to Foster Consensus on ‘Positive, Forward-Looking’ Outcome GA/AB/3908 Budget Committee Takes up 2009/10 Financing for Peacekeeping Missions in Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Timor-Leste 22 May, 2009 GA/AB/3907 Speakers Reiterate Importance of Paying Budget Assessments in Full, on Time, Without Conditions, as Fifth Committee Debates UN Financial Situation 20 May, 2009 GA/AB/3906 Budget Committee Takes up Financing for Missions in Cyprus, Georgia, Liberia 19 May, 2009 GA/PAL/1125 Palestinian Rights Committee, in Statement, Expresses Utmost Concern about ‘Illegal and Provocative’ Israeli Policies in Occupied East Jerusalem 18 May, 2009 GA/AB/3905 Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Briefs Budget Committee on Restructuring; Describes Positive Steps, Says 22 Months in, ‘We Are Very Much a Work in Progress’ 15 May, 2009 GA/AB/3904 Under-Secretary-General for Management Provides ‘Mixed Picture’ of United Nations Financial Situation in Briefing to Budget Committee 14 May, 2009 GA/AB/3903 Fifth Committee Takes Up 2009/10 Budgets for Observer Force on Golan Heights, Mission in Sudan, Hybrid Operation in Darfur GA/COL/3189 Regional Decolonization Seminar Addresses Pacific and Other Non-Self-Governing Territories outside Caribbean, United Nations Role in Providing Assistance GA/COL/3190 Caribbean Regional on Decolonization Concludes Work with Discussion on Priorities for Way Forward, Role of Special Committee 13 May, 2009 GA/10827 No Longer Possible to Turn Blind Eye to Human Trafficking, as World Wakes Up to Scope of Scourge, General Assembly Hears in Thematic Dialogue GA/AB/3902 Fifth Committee Takes Up Proposed $8.2 Billion Peacekeeping Budget for 2009-2010, Board of Auditors Report on Peacekeeping Operations for Year Ending June 2008 GA/COL/3187 Caribbean Regional Seminar on Implementation of Second International Decade for Eradication of Colonialism Opens in Saint Kitts and Nevis SG/SM/12238-GA/10828 Traffickers in Human Beings Should See an Oncoming Train, Strong Laws, Broad Alliances, Concerted Action, Zero Tolerance, Says Secretary-General SG/SM/12241-GA/COL/3188 Secretary-General Recognizes Emerging Threats to Non-Self-Governing Territories, in Message to Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization 12 May, 2009 GA/10826 United States Elected to Human Rights Council for First Time, with Belgium, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, as 18 Seats Filled In Single Round of Voting 11 May, 2009 GA/AB/3901 Budget Committee Takes Up Reports on Department of Safety and Security Concerning Request for Additional Resources, Internal Oversight Audit 8 May, 2009 GA/10825 General Assembly President Calls for Unity as Member States Negotiate ‘Powerful Outcome Document’ for Upcoming Conference on World Economic Crisis 7 May, 2009 GA/PAL/1122 Lawmakers Must Engage in Palestinian Question Since Constituents Will Always Confront Harsh Realities of Middle East Peoples, Cyprus Meeting Told GA/PAL/1123 Parliamentarians’ Contribution to Israeli-Palestinian Peace Is Quiet, Modest, Bottom-Up Approach, but Useful Add-On to Enduring Effort, Cyprus Meeting Told GA/PAL/1124 Endorsement of Role of Parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Organizations in Advancing Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Caps Cyprus Meeting 6 May, 2009 GA/COL/3186 Special Committee on Decolonization to Hold Caribbean Regional Seminar in Saint Kitts and Nevis, 12-14 May GA/PAL/1121 United Nations Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Opens in Cyprus with Focus on ‘Parliamentary Diplomacy’ to Boost Dialogue SG/SM/12225-GA/PAL/1120 Negotiations Must Resume on All Core Issues, Secretary-General Tells International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace 5 May, 2009 GA/PAL/1119 Cyprus Hosts United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 6-7 May 4 May, 2009 GA/SPD/419 Fourth Committee Approves Draft Resolution by Which General Assembly Would Endorse Recommendations, Conclusions of Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations 24 April, 2009 GA/10824 GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS TEXT ON SUPPORT FOR REHABILITATION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S SEMIPALATINSK FORMER NUCLEAR TESTING SITE 22 April, 2009 GA/10822 GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER DESIGNATING 22 APRIL AS INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY GA/10823 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS 22 APRIL ‘INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY’ ADOPTING BY CONSENSUS BOLIVIA-LED RESOLUTION 7 April, 2009 GA/10820 GENERAL ASSEMBLY DECIDES TO CONVENE HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE ON WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS, AT HEADQUARTERS 1-3 JUNE, ADOPTING RESOLUTION BY CONSENSUS GA/10821 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES UNITED NATIONS WILL HOLD JUNE CONFERENCE TO ASSESS GLOBAL FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC CRISIS 6 April, 2009 GA/10819 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, OPENING INTERACTIVE THEMATIC DIALOGUE, CALLS FOR NEW TYPE OF BOTTOM-UP ‘FOOD DEMOCRACY’ GA/AB/3900 BUDGET COMMITTEE DECISION INFORMS GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE ON WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS WILL REQUIRE APPROPRIATION OF $867,700 3 April, 2009 GA/COL/3185 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION TO HOLD REGIONAL SEMINAR IN SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, 12-14 MAY 31 March, 2009 GA/10818 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONFIRMS HELEN CLARK OF NEW ZEALAND AT HELM OF UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, APPOINTS THREE AD LITEM JUDGES TO DISPUTE TRIBUNAL 27 March, 2009 GA/10817 DEEP REFORMS OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM INEVITABLE RESPONSE TO PROTRACTED CRISIS, BUT QUESTION IS WHETHER THEY WILL BE AD HOC OR ORDERLY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEARS GA/AB/3899 CAPITAL MASTER PLAN, SECONDARY DATA CENTRE, AMENDED STAFF RULES AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED, AS BUDGET COMMITTEE CONCLUDES RESUMED SESSION 26 March, 2009 GA/10815 AS FINANCIAL CRISIS ENGULFS WORLD ECONOMY, EXPERT COMMISSION UNVEILS PLAN FOR PROFOUND REFORM OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CONSTRUCT, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY GA/10816-ECO/146 EXPERTS PROPOSE NEW INTERNATIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM AS PART OF EFFORTS TO CREATE MORE EFFECTIVE, DEMOCRATIC GLOBAL STRUCTURES 25 March, 2009 GA/10814 NEW SPIRIT OF UNIVERSAL SOLIDARITY NEEDED TO TACKLE CHALLENGE OF COMPLEX ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, AS THREE-DAY EVENT OPENS GA/AB/3898 PROPOSED $80.9 MILLION LOGISTICAL SUPPORT PACKAGE FOR AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN SOMALIA TAKEN UP BY BUDGET COMMITTEE 24 March, 2009 GA/AB/3897 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL FINANCING FOR UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SUDAN 23 March, 2009 GA/AB/3896 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REVISED PROPOSAL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF SECONDARY DATA CENTRE AT HEADQUARTERS 20 March, 2009 GA/PK/202 SUSTAINED SURGE IN UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING CALLS FOR QUICK RESPONSES, IMPROVED CAPACITY TO ASSESS CONFLICTS, EFFECTIVE PLANNING, SAYS SPECIAL COMMITTEE 19 March, 2009 GA/AB/3895 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND CHAD 18 March, 2009 DSG/SM/449-GA/10813 ‘BOOKS AND TEACHING ARE THE BRICKS AND MORTAR WE CAN USE TO REBUILD OUR ECONOMIES’, DEPUTY-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY GA/10812 WAYS MUST BE FOUND TO FEED YOUNG MINDS, CREATE SAFE HAVENS FOR LEARNERS, PRESIDENT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY SAYS DURING DEBATE ON ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS GA/PK/201 IF AFRICAN UNION EXPECTED TO ASSUME LARGER SHARE OF PEACEKEEPING, WORLD COMMUNITY MUST HELP REGIONAL PARTNER FINANCIALLY, MATERIALLY, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TOLD 17 March, 2009 GA/AB/3894 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSAL FOR DONATION OF ASSETS OF UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA 13 March, 2009 GA/AB/3893 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO STAFF REGULATIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT NEW SYSTEMS FOR STREAMLINED CONTRACTS, INTERNAL JUSTICE 12 March, 2009 GA/AB/3892 FIFTH COMMITTEE REVIEWS COMPENSATION FOR CHAIR OF BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE; CHAIR, VICE-CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 11 March, 2009 GA/PAL/1117 CAIRO SEMINAR ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE ASSESSES URGENT NEEDS IN GAZA STRIP; BASIC SERVICES, ENDING ISOLATION, RESTARTING ECONOMY AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED GA/PAL/1118 INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE CONCLUDES IN CAIRO 10 March, 2009 GA/PAL/1115 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OPENS IN CAIRO GA/PAL/1116 DIRECT DAMAGE FROM ISRAELI INVASION ESTIMATED AT $1.9 BILLION, CAIRO MEETING TOLD AS SECOND PLENARY CONSIDERS SITUATION IN GAZA STRIP SG/SM/12130-GA/PAL/1114 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE SEMINAR, SAYS RECENT EVENTS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO WIPE OUT PROGRESS MADE TOWARDS PEACE 9 March, 2009 GA/AB/3891 BUDGET COMMITTEE SPEAKERS URGE QUICK ACTION TO FILL VACANT POSTS IN OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES 4 March, 2009 GA/AB/3890 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP SIXTH PROGRESS REPORT ON CAPITAL MASTER PLAN; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SAYS PROJECT ‘ON SCHEDULE AND ON TRACK’ 3 March, 2009 GA/PAL/1113 UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE TO BE HELD IN CAIRO, 10-11 MARCH 2 March, 2009 GA/10811 GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPOINTS 12 JUDGES TO UNITED NATIONS DISPUTE TRIBUNALS IN KEY STEP TO IMPROVE ORGANIZATION’S INTERNAL JUSTICE SYSTEM GA/AB/3889 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR UNITED NATIONS BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT, AS FOUR-WEEK RESUMED SESSION OPENS 27 February, 2009 GA/COL/3183 SECRETARY-GENERAL, CITING ‘UNFINISHED BUSINESS’, CALLS FOR RENEWED COMMITMENT TO ERADICATE COLONIALISM, AS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION OPENS SESSION GA/COL/3183 SECRETARY-GENERAL, CITING ‘UNFINISHED BUSINESS’, CALLS FOR RENEWED COMMITMENT TO ERADICATE COLONIALISM, AS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION OPENS SESSION SG/SM/12118-GA/COL/3184 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE, URGES CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN ADMINISTERING POWERS, NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES SG/SM/12118-GA/COL/3184 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE, URGES CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN ADMINISTERING POWERS, NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES 24 February, 2009 GA/PK/200 WITH PEACEKEEPING ARCHITECTURE STRETCHED TO LIMIT, SPEAKERS IN SPECIAL COMMITTEE CALL FOR REASSESSMENT OF OPERATIONAL, STRATEGIC, MANAGEMENT ISSUES 23 February, 2009 GA/PK/199 2009 WILL BE ‘CRITICAL YEAR’ FOR PEACEKEEPING, WITH CAPACITY OVERSTRETCHED MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TOLD, AS THREE-WEEK SESSION OPENS 20 February, 2009 GA/10810 GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES DATES FOR 2009 GENERAL DEBATE, INCLUDES SATURDAY MEETING, ALSO MAKES APPOINTMENTS TO SUBSIDIARY BODIES 11 February, 2009 GA/PAL/1111 ‘SHOCKED’ BY DEVASTATION IN GAZA, SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER’ TO ACHIEVE ESTABLISHMENT OF PALESTINIAN STATE, COEXISTING WITH ISRAEL IN PEACE SG/SM/12097-GA/PAL/1112 SECRETARY-GENERAL, TELLS OPENING PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OF PLANS TO INVESTIGATE CONDUCT OF BELLIGERENTS IN GAZA CONFLICT 16 January, 2009 GA/10809/Rev. 1 GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEMANDS FULL RESPECT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1860 CALLING FOR IMMEDIATE GAZA CEASEFIRE, AS EMERGENCY SESSION CONCLUDES 15 January, 2009 DSG/SM/435-GA/10808 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CIVILIAN SUFFERING IN GAZA ‘MUST END NOW’, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONVENES EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION GA/10807 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS ‘GAZA IS ABLAZE,’ RELENTLESS ASSAULT CONTINUES, DESPITE SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION, AS EMERGENCY SESSION ON CRISIS OPENS 8 January, 2009 GA/PAL/1110 TROUBLED BY ESCALATING GAZA VIOLENCE, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CALLS SITUATION ‘UNACCEPTABLE AND UNTENABLE’; URGES SECURITY COUNCIL TO FULFIL CHARTER MANDATE GA/PAL/1110 TROUBLED BY ESCALATING GAZA VIOLENCE, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CALLS SITUATION ‘UNACCEPTABLE AND UNTENABLE’; URGES SECURITY COUNCIL TO FULFIL CHARTER MANDATE Symbol Headline 31 December, 2008 GA/PAL/1109 STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS ON SITUATION IN GAZA STRIP 26 December, 2008 GA/10806 AMID MYRIAD GLOBAL CRISES, ‘BUSY, DYNAMIC AND CONSTRUCTIVE’ GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNDERSCORED IMPORTANCE OF GENUINE SOLIDARITY TO ENSURE STABLE, SECURE WORLD 24 December, 2008 GA/10804 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDS MAIN PART OF SIXTY-THIRD SESSION, ADOPTING TEXTS ON HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, NEW SYSTEM FOR UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE GA/AB/3888 BUDGET RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE APPROVED, AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SESSION SG/SM/12021-GA/10805 SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES APPRECIATION OF BUDGET ACTIONS BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 22 December, 2008 GA/10803 ADOPTING CONSENSUS TEXT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGES MEMBER STATES, UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SICKLE–CELL ANAEMIA ON 19 JUNE EACH YEAR GA/AB/3887 DRAFT RESOLUTION ON ‘DEVELOPMENT-RELATED ACTIVITIES’ INTRODUCED IN BUDGET COMMITTEE 19 December, 2008 GA/10802 AMONG 34 DEVELOPMENT-RELATED ACTIONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING NEED TO WORK TOWARDS NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER GA/AB/3886 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP BUDGET OUTLINE FOR 2010-2011 18 December, 2008 GA/10801 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 52 RESOLUTIONS, 6 DECISIONS RECOMMENDED BY THIRD COMMITTEE ON WIDE RANGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL, HUMANITARIAN ISSUES 17 December, 2008 GA/AB/3885 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROGRESS REPORT ON $1.5 BILLION BUDGET OF AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN DARFUR FOR 2008/09 16 December, 2008 GA/AB/3884 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSED $467 MILLION IN FINANCING FOR 27 POLITICAL MISSIONS IN 2009 15 December, 2008 DSG/SM/432-GA/10800 AS WORLD FACES MULTIPLE CRISES, ‘THIS IS A TIME TO COME TOGETHER’ TO ENSURE DEVELOPMENT GAINS NOT LOST, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL GA/10799 CALLING FOR DECISIVE ACTION TO LESSEN IMPACT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY: ‘OUR DESTINIES ARE DEEPLY INTERCONNECTED’ GA/AB/3883 TEXT ENDORSING RECOMMENDATIONS OF PROGRAMME AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE APPROVED BY BUDGET COMMITTEE GA/PAL/1107 INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO ENSURE ISRAELI COMPLIANCE WITH UN RESOLUTIONS INSUFFICIENT, SAY SPEAKERS AT SANTIAGO MEETING IN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE GA/PAL/1108 UN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MEETING ON ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE PROCESS CALLS FOR HALTING SETTLEMENT EXPANSION, DISMANTLING OF WALL IN WEST BANK 12 December, 2008 GA/PAL/1104 UNITED NATIONS LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MEETING IN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE OPENS IN CHILE GA/PAL/1106 SITUATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY DISCUSSED AT UN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MEETING IN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE SG/SM/12002-GA/PAL/1105 ‘URGENT NEED’ FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT TO ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS IN EFFORT TO REACH COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO SANTIAGO MEETING 11 December, 2008 GA/10798 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY OF UN OFFICIALS ON MISSION AMONG ISSUES, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 18 TEXTS RECOMMENDED BY LEGAL COMMITTEE GA/EF/3235 MIXED REACTIONS AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SESSION BY APPROVING TEXT CALLING FOR IN-DEPTH CONSIDERATION OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC SITUATION 10 December, 2008 GA/10795 GENERAL ASSEMBLY MARKS 60 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION BY ADOPTING ITS OWN, PLEDGING TO ENHANCE DIALOGUE AMONG PEOPLES GA/10796-PAL/2109 SIXTEEN DONORS PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO 2009 BUDGET OF UNITED NATIONS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES, WITH SEVERAL STATES PROMISING LATER PLEDGES SG/SM/11996-GA/10797-HR/4974 HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION’S TOWERING VISION WILL ONLY BE HONOURED WHEN PRINCIPLES APPLIED ‘EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYONE’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE 5 December, 2008 GA/10794 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS BROAD RANGE OF TEXTS, 26 IN ALL, ON RECOMMENDATION OF ITS FOURTH COMMITTEE, INCLUDING ON DECOLONIZATION, INFORMATION, PALESTINE REFUGEES GA/PAL/1103 LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MEETING IN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE TO BE HELD IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, 11 – 12 DECEMBER 4 December, 2008 GA/10793 LAW OF SEA CONVENTION, 26 YEARS LATER, STILL GENERATING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON MARITIME ISSUES, GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEARS, TAKING UP ISSUES IN DAY-LONG DEBATE GA/AB/3882 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP ISSUE OF PENSION BENEFITS FOR INTERNATIONAL JUDGES 2 December, 2008 GA/10792 ON RECOMMENDATION OF FIRST COMMITTEE, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 57 TEXTS, INCLUDING TWO NEW ONES ON HALTING ILLICIT ARMS BROKERING, BANNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS USE 26 November, 2008 GA/10791 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SIX RESOLUTIONS ON MIDDLE EAST, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS, FOLLOWING TWO-DAY DEBATE ON ISSUES GA/AB/3881 CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FACILITIES AT NAIROBI OFFICE HAS EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT DELAYS, BUT STEPS TAKEN TO PUT PROJECT BACK ON TRACK, BUDGET COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3234 SECOND COMMITTEE DRAFT EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER OIL SLICK ON LEBANESE COAST, REQUESTS ISRAEL TO COMPENSATE FOR COSTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REPAIR GA/SHC/3943 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMME FOR 2010-2011, CONCLUDES 2008 SESSION 25 November, 2008 GA/10790 IF UNITED NATIONS SEEKS POSITIVE ROLE IN MIDDLE EAST, IT MUST ESCHEW ‘ONE-SIDED’ RESOLUTIONS, EMBRACE POLITICS OF HOPE, ISRAEL’S REPRESENTATIVE TELLS ASSEMBLY GA/EF/3233 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING FOR URGENT GLOBAL ACTION IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE TO BENEFIT PRESENT, FUTURE GENERATIONS GA/SHC/3942 RIGHTS OF DISABLED, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT, ELIMINATING RACISM AMONG ISSUES, AS THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX MORE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS 24 November, 2008 GA/10789 PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS GLOBAL COMMUNITY MUST UPHOLD ITS LEGAL, MORAL POLITICAL, DUTY TO PROMOTE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT GA/AB/3880 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT ON JOINT STAFF PENSION FUND GA/PAL/1102 SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARKING INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, SAYS PROGRESS MUST BE MADE TOWARDS STATEHOOD IN 2009 GA/SHC/3941 THIRD COMMITTEE DRAFT TEXT ENDORSES RECOMMENDATIONS, FUTURE WORKPLAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL’S WORKING GROUP ON RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT 21 November, 2008 GA/SHC/3940 THIRD COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS IN MYANMAR, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, IRAN 20 November, 2008 GA/10788 GENERAL ASSEMBLY MUST REASSERT ITS CHARTER-MANDATED ROLE AS UNITED NATIONS CENTRAL DELIBERATIVE, POLICY-MAKING BODY, SPEAKERS SAY, DEBATING ASSEMBLY REVITALIZATION GA/AB/3879 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP NEW UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE SYSTEM GA/EF/3232 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CALLING ON ISRAEL NOT TO EXPLOIT, DAMAGE, ENDANGER NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS GA/PAL/1101-OBV/747 OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN PEOPLE TO BE HELD AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS ON 24 NOVEMBER GA/SHC/3939 GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL REAFFIRM RESOLUTION ON DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM, UNDER TERMS OF DRAFT TEXT APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE 19 November, 2008 GA/10787 TO REMAIN RELEVANT, SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP MUST REFLECT FULL DIVERSITY OF UNITED NATIONS, SPEAKERS SAY DURING GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE 18 November, 2008 GA/10786 ‘OUT OF DATE AND OUT OF TOUCH’, SECURITY COUNCIL REQUIRES URGENT REFORM, ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS, URGING DELEGATIONS TO MOVE SWIFTLY TO END IMPASSE GA/EF/3231 SECOND COMMITTEE IN CONSENSUS APPROVAL OF TEXT CALLING FOR INCREASED INTERNATIONAL AID TO COUNTRIES AFFECTED BY EL NINO PHENOMENON GA/SHC/3938 THIRD COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTION OF OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS 17 November, 2008 GA/10785 AILING WORLD ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM MUST BE RESTRUCTURED BY 192 NATIONS, NOT JUST ‘G-20’, PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA SAYS IN ADDRESS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY GA/PAL/1100 STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS ON SITUATION IN GAZA STRIP 14 November, 2008 GA/AB/3878 BUDGET COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON PROPOSALS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT REFORM GA/L/3359 LEGAL COMMITTEE SEEKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUPPORT FOR RULE OF LAW MECHANISM AT UNITED NATIONS, EXPERT COMMENTS INVITED 13 November, 2008 GA/10784 ADOPTING CONSENSUS RESOLUTION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY AFFIRMS MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AS IMPORTANT DIMENSIONS OF CULTURE OF PEACE GA/AB/3877 BUDGET COMMITTEE DEBATES SECRETARY-GENERAL’S WIDE-RANGING PROPOSALS ON HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT REFORM GA/EF/3230 BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PEACE, DEMOCRACY IN POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES REQUIRES HOLISTIC APPROACH FOCUSED ON LEADERSHIP TRAINING, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD 12 November, 2008 GA/10782 INTERFAITH INITIATIVES CAN ENSURE RICH CULTURAL DIVERSITY MADE WORLD MORE SECURE, NOT LESS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON CULTURE OF PEACE SG/SM/11917-GA/10783 ENSURING GREATER SECURITY THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY IS ONE OF GREATEST MODERN CHALLENGES, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON CULTURE OF PEACE 11 November, 2008 GA/10781 EMERGENCY RELIEF MUST BE TIMELY, IMPARTIAL, SPEAKERS SAY, AS ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES DEBATE ON WAYS TO BOLSTER UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE GA/EF/3229 GLOBAL CRISIS HAS DEBUNKED MYTH OF INFALLIBLE MARKETS, INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD DURING PANEL DISCUSSION GA/SHC/3937 ATTACKS ON REFUGEES CONDEMNED, HUMANITARIAN, NON-POLITICAL NATURE OF HIGH COMMISSIONER’S WORK REAFFIRMED, UNDER TEXT APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE 10 November, 2008 GA/10780 REAFFIRMING STRONG COMMITMENT TO PEACE, STABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN, ASSEMBLY ADOPTS CONSENSUS RESOLUTION URGING GLOBAL COOPERATION IN COUNTERING ONGOING CHALLENGES GA/PAL/1099 COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS APPROVES FOUR DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE, CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE EXTENSION OF 2008 CEASEFIRE TO WEST BANK 7 November, 2008 DSG/SM/429-GA/10779-PKO/200 PEACEKEEPERS’ COURAGEOUS SPIRIT, SOLIDARITY CRUCIAL TO SUSTAINING UNITED NATIONS, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL MARKING SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PEACEKEEPING GA/10778 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS ‘COURAGEOUS SPIRIT’ OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS, URGES BROADER SUPPORT, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MARKS 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF PEACEKEEPING GA/AB/3876 BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPOINTMENTS TO SUBSIDIARY BODIES GA/SPD/418 CONCLUDING SESSION, FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES 23 DRAFT RESOLUTIONS, 4 DECISIONS, INCLUDING 9 TODAY BY RECORDED VOTE ON MIDDLE EAST, UN REFUGEE RELIEF AGENCY 6 November, 2008 GA/10777 GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN FOUR ROUNDS OF VOTING, ELECTS FIVE MEMBERS TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE GA/AB/3875 FIFTH COMMITTEE SPEAKERS STRESS NEED FOR ADEQUATE, PREDICTABLE UNITED NATIONS FINANCING; FULL, TIMELY, UNCONDITIONAL PAYMENT OF ASSESSED CONTRIBUTIONS GA/SHC/3927/Corr. 1 THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS PRESENTATIONS FROM FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL RAPPORTEURS, AS WIDE-RANGING TWO-WEEK HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE CONTINUES GA/SHC/3936 GENERAL EFFORTS CALLED FOR TO ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, WITH FOCUS ON ENDING IMPUNITY, UNDER TEXT APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/417 ISRAEL CALLS REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ISRAELI PRACTICES IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES ‘BIASED AND ANACHRONISTIC’, IN FOURTH COMMITTEE 5 November, 2008 GA/EF/3228 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS MUST GENERATE STRONGER REGULATION TO CONTAIN SPECULATION, INSTABILITY, PRESIDENT OF TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE GA/L/3358 LEGAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ASSEMBLY OBSERVER STATUS FOR UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE, GROUP PROMOTING SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION; DEBATE ON LAW COMMISSION REPORT ENDS GA/SHC/3935 INNOVATIVE, DURABLE SOLUTIONS -- VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, LOCAL INTEGRATION -- NEEDED TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF REFUGEES, SAY SPEAKERS IN THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/416 FOURTH COMMITTEE DEEMS UNITED NATIONS ‘INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION OF A PEACEFUL WORLD’, IN PACKAGE OF THREE INFORMATION-RELATED TEXTS APPROVED WITHOUT VOTE 4 November, 2008 GA/10776 WEATHERING EARLY CRITICISM, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HAS ‘CARVED A NICHE FOR ITSELF’, SAYS BODY’S PRESIDENT, APPEALING FOR OBJECTIVITY, PATIENCE WITH ITS WORK GA/EF/3227 CONCERNED THAT GLOBAL CRISES THREATEN TO WORSEN VULNERABILITY IN POOREST NATIONS, SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE CALL FOR ENHANCED PRODUCTIVITY, FOOD SECURITY GA/L/3357 LEGAL COMMITTEE, REVIEWING ‘EXTRADITE OR PROSECUTE’ OBLIGATIONS, IS TOLD PROCEDURES ARE BASED ON SPECIFIC TREATY PROVISIONS GA/SHC/3934 ADVERSE TRENDS -- WIDENING INEQUALITY, DEEPENING CONFLICTS -- PLACING DRAMATIC PRESSURE ON REFUGEE OFFICE, HIGH COMMISSIONER TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/415 ISRAEL’S ‘ENORMOUS WEB OF UNLAWFUL PRACTICES’ DEVASTATING PALESTINIAN SOCIETY, PALESTINE’S OBSERVER SAYS, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE DEBATES SITUATION IN TERRITORY 3 November, 2008 GA/10775 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS 2008 REPORT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, ADOPTS TEXTS ON UNITED NATIONS COOPERATION WITH REGIONAL, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS GA/EF/3226 GLOBAL TURMOIL COULD WIPE OUT GAINS FROM RECORD GROWTH RATES IN LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD GA/L/3356 EXTENSION OF LIST OF CRIMES NO LONGER QUALIFYING FOR IMMUNITY IS URGED IN LEGAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSION OF ACTS OF FOREIGN OFFICIALS GA/SHC/3933 STRENGTHENING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS KEY FOR PREVENTING CONFLICT, STABILIZING POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD 31 October, 2008 GA/AB/3874 SPEAKERS PRAISE STEPS TAKEN TO HARMONIZE CONFERENCE SERVICING IN UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM AS BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT ON PATTERN OF CONFERENCES GA/DIS/3380 FIRST COMMITTEE ASKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ENCOURAGE STATES TO ENSURE IRONCLAD INTERNAL CONTROLS TO PREVENT DIVERSION OF LEGAL WEAPONS TO ILLICIT MARKET GA/L/3355 PROCEDURAL CONSTRAINTS ON WORK OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE DESCRIBED TO ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE BY PRESIDENT OF COURT GA/SHC/3932 2007-2008 MARKED ‘INSTITUTIONAL RENEWAL’ OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS MACHINERY, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD, AS IT TAKES UP HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT 30 October, 2008 GA/10773 UNITED NATIONS MUST INTERVENE FOLLOWING FAILURE OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS TO ADDRESS FINANCIAL CRISIS, SAYS NOBEL LAUREATE GA/10774 PRESIDENTS OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PRESENT ANNUAL REPORTS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY GA/DIS/3379 FAILURE TO COMBAT ILLICIT ARMS BROKERING WOULD PROLONG CONFLICTS, EASE ACCESS BY NON-STATE ACTORS TO MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS, SAYS FIRST COMMITTEE TEXT GA/L/3354 TREATIES COMPRISE BULK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, SO STATES NEED GUIDELINES ON EXPRESSING RESERVATIONS, ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SHC/3931 MEMBER STATES CALLED ON TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO PREVENT OBSTETRIC FISTULA, INCLUDING ENSURING PRENATAL, POST-NATAL CARE, IN TEXT APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/414 UN RELIEF, WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES SUFFERS IMPACT OF RESTRICTED MOVEMENT, CLOSURES, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD, AS DEBATE CONCLUDES ON AGENCY 29 October, 2008 GA/10772 FOR SEVENTEENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR, GENERAL ASSEMBLY OVERWHELMINGLY CALLS FOR END TO UNITED STATES ECONOMIC, TRADE EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA GA/DIS/3378 STAUNCHING UNCONTROLLED SPREAD OF ILLICIT WEAPONS IS THRUST OF 1 OF 20 DRAFTS APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE, AS VOTING CONTINUES ON BROAD RANGE OF MEASURES GA/EF/3225 SECOND COMMITTEE, DISCUSSING INTERDEPENDENCE, HEARS CALLS TO REFORM GLOBAL FINANCIAL BODIES, TACKLE CORRUPTION, REDUCE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION GA/L/3353 LEGAL COMMITTEE REVIEWS ISSUE OF RATIONALE FOR TREATY RESERVATIONS, WITH CONCERN TO AVOID DISCOURAGING ADHERENCE GA/SHC/3930 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL’S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW MECHANISM COULD CHANGE THIRD COMMITTEE’S ROLE IN DEALING WITH SPECIFIC COUNTRIES, SAY SPEAKERS GA/SPD/413 UNITED NATIONS RELIEF, WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES COPES WITH MAJOR CRISES IN THREE FIELDS OF OPERATIONS, COMMISSIONER-GENERAL TELLS FOURTH COMMITTEE 28 October, 2008 GA/AB/3873 UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT BRIEFS FIFTH COMMITTEE ON UNITED NATIONS FINANCES; SAYS MAIN INDICATORS FOR REGULAR, PEACEKEEPING BUDGETS ‘MIXED’ GA/DIS/3377 SEEKING TO REDUCE NUCLEAR DANGER, GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR URGENT STEPS TO REDUCE RISK OF ACCIDENTAL USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BY FIRST COMMITTEE TEXT GA/EF/3224 UN-HABITAT CHIEF, IN SECOND COMMITTEE, CITES ‘RAPID AND CHAOTIC’ URBANIZATION, SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS CAUSES OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS GA/L/3352 LEGAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD PROTECTION OF GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES, NOW URGENT NECESSITY, IS STRENGTHENED BY LAW COMMISSION PROPOSALS GA/SHC/3929 SPEAKERS WARN AGAINST POLITICIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ON UNITED NATIONS AGENDA, AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONTINUES WIDE-RANGING DEBATE GA/SPD/412 UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FACES ‘UPHILL STRUGGLE’; SURMOUNTING CHALLENGES REQUIRES MORE EXPANSIVE REFORM AGENDA, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 27 October, 2008 GA/10771 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS STRONG SUPPORT FOR INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, AS DIRECTOR GENERAL MOHAMED ELBARADEI PRESENTS ANNUAL REPORT GA/AB/3872 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION GA/DIS/3376 CANADA ASKS FIRST COMMITTEE TO IMAGINE ‘UTOPIAN’ PICTURE OF DISARMAMENT MACHINERY; URGES ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS WHERE PROGRESS IN TRADITIONAL MACHINERY HAS STAGNATED GA/EF/3223 GLOBAL CRISES OFFER CHANCES TO USE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS ENGINE FOR COMMON PURPOSES, MEETING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD GA/L/3351 INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ‘BROADENING HORIZONS’ OF COOPERATION WITH OTHER LEGAL BODIES, CHAIRMAN TELLS SIXTH COMMITTEE GA/SHC/3928 ANY SOLUTION TO GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS MUST BE GROUNDED IN ‘RIGHT TO FOOD’, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL RAPORTEUR GA/SPD/411 SPEAKERS IN FOURTH COMMITTEE UNDERLINE NEED FOR STRONG, WELL-MANAGED PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS TO MEET SURGE IN DEMAND, BRIDGE GAPS BETWEEN CAPACITY, EXPECTATIONS 24 October, 2008 GA/DIS/3375 LOFTY GOALS OF PEACE, DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION REQUIRE SOUND REGIONAL PROGRAMMES, FIRST COMMITTEE HEARS AS THEMATIC DEBATES CONTINUE GA/EF/3222 ONLY FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC, TRADE ORDER CAN MAKE EQUITABLE HEALTH CARE A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, WHO HEAD TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE GA/L/3350 PUNISHMENT OF ATTACKS ON DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR MISSIONS ESSENTIAL BUT PREVENTIVE MEASURES REAL ANSWER, LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SHC/3927 THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS PRESENTATIONS FROM FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL RAPPORTEURS, AS WIDE-RANGING TWO-WEEK HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE CONTINUES GA/SPD/410 PEACEKEEPING’S BEST ASSURANCE AGAINST INSECURITY IN FIELD WAS WELL-PLANNED MISSION WHERE THERE WAS PEACE TO KEEP, FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS AS IT LAUNCHES DEBATE 23 October, 2008 GA/AB/3871 BUDGET COMMITTEE DEBATES PLANS TO INTEGRATE PROCUREMENT TASK FORCE FUNCTIONS INTO OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES GA/DIS/3374 UNITED NATIONS IS DRIVING FORCE IN EFFORTS TO ADDRESS NEW SECURITY THREATS, AS DISARMAMENT MACHINERY ASSUMES MORE MAJOR ROLE, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3221 STEPPING UP FINANCING OF DIGITAL SOLIDARITY FUND WOULD HELP BUILD INCLUSIVE INFORMATION SOCIETY, DELEGATE TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE GA/L/3349 ROLE OF ‘OUTSOURCING’ TO NON-MILITARY ELEMENTS AMONG NEW CHALLENGES TO RULES OF WARFARE, ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SHC/3926 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING, YEAR OF VOLUNTEERS, LITERACY DECADE, 12TH CRIME CONGRESS, AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR CRIME PREVENTION GA/SPD/409 FOR UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING, CONSIDERATION MUST BE GIVEN TO MEETING CHALLENGES INHERENT IN ‘POLITICALLY CHARGED, INSECURE SCENARIOS’, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 22 October, 2008 GA/10770 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS 18 MEMBERS TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL GA/AB/3870 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP WIDE-RANGING STRATEGY TO UPDATE UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY GA/DIS/3373 FIRST COMMITTEE WILL ASK GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CALL ON STATES TO ADOPT LEGISLATION TO PREVENT ILLICIT ARMS BROKERING, ACCORDING TO NEW DRAFT RESOLUTION GA/EF/3220 DELEGATES IN SECOND COMMITTEE CALL FOR COLLECTIVE INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZATION TO HELP DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BREAK ‘VICIOUS CYCLE OF POVERTY’ GA/L/3348 DELEGATES WARN LEGAL COMMITTEE OF CARE NEEDED TO ENSURE APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS CONFORMS TO UN CHARTER GA/SHC/3925 GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS SHOULD NOT BE PURSUED IN ISOLATION FROM HUMAN RIGHTS, NEW UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/408 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION’S MISSION ‘CENTRAL TO AND INSEPARABLE FROM’ OBJECTIVES AND AIMS OF UNITED NATIONS, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 21 October, 2008 GA/AB/3869 SUSTAINED, PREDICTABLE FINANCING NEEDED FOR DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT, SAY SPEAKERS IN BUDGET COMMITTEE GA/DIS/3372 NIGERIA URGES COUNTRIES TO HEED ‘CLARION CALLS ON OUR CONSCIENCES’ BY NEGOTIATING ARMS TRADE TREATY, AS FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATES CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS GA/L/3347 ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES PROTECTION OF STATUS OF PERSONS WHOSE NATIONALITY AFFECTED BY SUCCESSION, DISSOLUTION OF STATES GA/SHC/3924 THIRD COMMITTEE SPEAKERS HIGHLIGHT GAP BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES EMBODIED IN GLOBAL DECLARATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION ON THE GROUND GA/SPD/407 FOURTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CONSENSUS DRAFT RESOLUTION ON WESTERN SAHARA FOR ADOPTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 20 October, 2008 GA/10769 ADOPTING CONSENSUS RESOLUTION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PAVES WAY FOR PERMANENT MEMORIAL AT UN HEADQUARTERS ACKNOWLEDGING VICTIMS OF SLAVERY, TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE GA/DIS/3371 PREVENTING OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE WOULD AVERT GRAVE DANGER; POSSIBLE NEW VERIFIABLE BILATERAL, MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS NEEDED, SAYS DRAFT TEXT IN FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3219 DELEGATES DEMAND ISRAEL STOP DESTROYING INFRASTRUCTURE AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SOVEREIGNTY OVER NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS GA/L/3346 LINKS BETWEEN COMMERCIAL LAW REFORM AND ‘CULTURE OF RULE OF LAW’ STRESSED IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE GA/SHC/3923 THIRD COMMITTEE SPEAKERS HIGHLIGHT POLICY SUCCESSES ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES, BUT SAY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES CONTINUE TO FACE EXCLUSION, EXPLOITATION, POVERTY GA/SPD/406 FOLLOWING INTENSE DEBATE, FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES AMENDED OMNIBUS TEXT ON NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES 17 October, 2008 GA/10768 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS AUSTRIA, JAPAN, MEXICO, TURKEY, UGANDA TO TWO-YEAR TERMS ON SECURITY COUNCIL GA/DIS/3370 FIGHTING BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TURNS CORNER AS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION EDGES CLOSER TO UNIVERSALIZATION, FIRST COMMITTEE HEARS IN THEMATIC DEBATE GA/SHC/3922 THIRD COMMITTEE SPEAKERS UNDERLINE LINKS BETWEEN POVERTY, CHILD LABOUR, OTHER FORMS OF EXPLOITATION, AS DEBATE ON CHILD RIGHTS CONCLUDES GA/SPD/405 UNABLE TO REACH CONSENSUS, ASSEMBLY’S FOURTH COMMITTEE POSTPONES ACTION ON DRAFT DECOLONIZATION RESOLUTION 16 October, 2008 GA/AB/3868 PROPOSALS TO STRENGTHEN DEVELOPMENT WORK OF UNITED NATIONS THREATENED BY GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS, BUDGET COMMITTEE TOLD GA/DIS/3369 CIRCUMSTANCES DO NOT CURRENTLY EXIST FOR UNITED KINGDOM TO UNILATERALLY RENOUNCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD, AS DEBATE ON THOSE WEAPONS CONCLUDES GA/EF/3218 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND REPRESENTATIVE TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE HOW WORLD LEADERS AGREED ON COLLECTIVE ACTION FOLLOWING WEEKS OF HESITATION GA/SHC/3921 THIRD COMMITTEE SPEAKERS PRAISE STRENGTHENED CHILD RIGHTS LEGAL STRUCTURE, BUT SAY CHILDREN IN POVERTY, CONFLICT ‘SAD REMINDER’ OF HOW FAR WORLD HAS TO GO GA/SPD/404 REDRESSING CHRONICALLY UNDER-FUNDED SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, WHOSE WORK UNDERPINS PUBLIC PROTECTION FROM ATOMIC RADIATION EXPOSURE, FOCUS IN FOURTH COMMITTEE 15 October, 2008 GA/10767 GLOBAL CRISES THREATEN TO ERODE AFRICA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC GAINS, SPEAKERS WARN, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT GA/AB/3867 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORTS OF BOARD OF AUDITORS, COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMME AND COORDINATION GA/DIS/3368 WORLD’S FATE RESTS WITH ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, YET STATE OF AFFAIRS UNSTABLE AT BEST, DISARMAMENT CHIEF TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3217 AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONSIDERS OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT, DELEGATES CALL FOR MORE PROACTIVE ROLE FOR UN SYSTEM IN OVERCOMING CHALLENGES GA/SHC/3920 WORLD HAS WITNESSED PRECEDENT-SETTING DEVELOPMENTS TO PROTECT CHILD RIGHTS, BUT EMERGING CHALLENGES POSE NEW THREATS, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/403 FOURTH COMMITTEE WEIGHS WHETHER OR NOT ‘1979 MOON TREATY’ SUFFICIENT TO PREVENT MILITARIZATION OF OUTER SPACE, AS DEBATE CONCLUDES ON ITS PEACEFUL USES 14 October, 2008 DSG/SM/420-GA/L/3345 UNITED NATIONS WORKING TO ENHANCE DELIVERY OF RULE OF LAW ASSISTANCE TO MEMBER STATES, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SIXTH COMMITTEE DSG/SM/421-GA/AB/3866 GLOBAL FOOD, ENERGY, FINANCIAL CRISES HIGHLIGHT URGENT NEED TO STRENGTHEN UN DEVELOPMENT PILLAR, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE GA/AB/3865 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SERIOUS MISMATCH EXISTS BETWEEN MANDATES, RESOURCES TO ADVANCE DEVELOPMENT, AS BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP ISSUE GA/DIS/3367 WITHDRAWAL FROM NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY COULD BE DISCOURAGED BY SUSPENDING NUCLEAR COOPERATION, FRANCE TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE AS THEMATIC DEBATE OPENS GA/L/3344 LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD OBSERVANCE OF STRONG RULE OF LAW RELEVANT TO PROMOTION OF STABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GA/SHC/3919 UNEVEN SUCCESS ACHIEVING GENDER PARITY SIGNALS NEED FOR STRENGTHENED COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS CONCERNING WOMEN’S RIGHTS, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/402 SPACE TECHNOLOGIES INDISPENSABLE TO CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH, FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS DURING DEBATE ON PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE 13 October, 2008 GA/10766 ADDRESSING GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PRESIDENTS OF TRIBUNALS FOR RWANDA, FORMER YUGOSLAVIA APPEAL FOR TIME TO WRAP UP PENDING CASES, COOPERATION ON OUTSTANDING FUGITIVES GA/DIS/3366 NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS, IRRATIONAL DOCTRINES JUSTIFYING THEIR USE, NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY NON-COMPLIANCE BLOCK NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, IRAN TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3216 AILING GLOBAL FINANCE SYSTEM NEEDS ‘REGULATORY OVERHAUL’, ROBUST SURVEILLANCE, SAY SECOND COMMITTEE DELEGATES GA/L/3343 LEGAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD DEVELOPMENT OF ‘RULE OF LAW’ NEEDS FULL PARTICIPATION OF NATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS GA/SHC/3918 ‘NEW PARADIGM IN OUR POLICIES’ NEEDED TO ENSURE WOMEN INVOLVED AT EACH STAGE OF PEACE, DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/401 FOURTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ADOPTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF EIGHT RESOLUTIONS, TWO DECISIONS ON DECOLONIZATION; ‘OMNIBUS’, WESTERN SAHARA DRAFTS PENDING 10 October, 2008 GA/DIS/3365 AMID CONFLUENCE OF CRISES, UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES CAPABLE OF RIDDING PLANET OF ‘WEAPONS THAT WE FALSELY BELIEVE PROTECT US’, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3215 THINK TANK CHIEF PRESCRIBES FINANCIAL RISK-SHARING TO PUT GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM ON ‘HEALTHY TRACK’ GA/L/3342 LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD ‘JURISDICTIONAL GAPS’ AMONG ELEMENTS IMPEDING EFFORTS ON ACCOUNTABILITY OF PERSONNEL ON UNITED NATIONS MISSIONS GA/SHC/3917 MULTI-PRONGED STRATEGIES NEEDED TO COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME, USING FRAMEWORK OF UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/400 DELEGATES URGE SUSTAINED MOMENTUM IN NEGOTIATIONS ON WESTERN SAHARA, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON DECOLONIZATION 9 October, 2008 GA/10765 GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES UP SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION; EXTENDS TERMS IN OFFICE OF 41 JUDGES ON FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL GA/AB/3864 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORTS OF INTERNAL AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES GA/DIS/3364 DELEGATES BLAME NON-COMPLIANCE WITH TREATY OBLIGATIONS, DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR HOLDING UP INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION EFFORTS GA/L/3341 COOPERATION BETWEEN STATES IN ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORTS FOCUS OF LEGAL COMMITTEE DEBATE ON COUNTER-MEASURES GA/SHC/3916 STRENGTHENING RULE OF LAW ‘KEY’ TO UNLOCKING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, HEAD OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/399 STRONG POLITICAL WILL NEEDED TO FULLY IMPLEMENT DECOLONIZATION AGENDA, DELEGATES SAY, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE 8 October, 2008 GA/10764 BACKING REQUEST BY SERBIA, GENERAL ASSEMBLY DECIDES TO SEEK INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE RULING ON LEGALITY OF KOSOVO’S INDEPENDENCE GA/AB/3863 SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PROPOSALS ON ACCOUNTABILITY, RISK MANAGEMENT, RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT TAKEN UP BY BUDGET COMMITTEE GA/DIS/3363 UNITED STATES COMMITTED TO NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, BUT ONLY ONCE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PERMITS; PRUDENT NOW TO MAINTAIN NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES, FIRST COMMITTEE HEARS GA/EF/3214 AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE, SPEAKERS STRESS NEED TO REDEFINE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN LIGHT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES GA/L/3340 RENEWED EFFORT TOWARDS COMPLETION OF COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION AGAINST TERRORISM APPLAUDED IN LEGAL COMMITTEE GA/SPD/398 DIVERGENT VIEWS PERSIST AS NEARLY 30 PETITIONERS DEBATE STATUS OF WESTERN SAHARA, AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS ‘LAST COLONIAL CASE IN AFRICA’ 7 October, 2008 GA/AB/3862 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AT UNITED NATIONS FACILITIES IN NAIROBI, ADDIS ABABA, VIENNA GA/DIS/3362 RELIANCE ON ILLUSION OF UNIPOLAR WORLD, CONNIVANCE AT DOUBLE STANDARDS IN GLOBAL SECURITY AGGRAVATE DISARMAMENT CRISIS, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3213 GIVE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOP PRIORITY IN TACKLING CRISIS-BRED SUFFERING, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD AS IT CONTINUES DEBATE GA/SHC/3915 GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM HAS FAILED TO LIFT WORLD’S MOST VULNERABLE OUT OF VICIOUS CYCLE OF POVERTY, EXCLUSION, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/397 PETITIONERS ADDRESS FOURTH COMMITTEE ON GIBRALTAR, GUAM, WESTERN SAHARA, UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS –- REVEALING COMPLEX DYNAMICS OF DECOLONIZATION ISSUES 6 October, 2008 DSG/SM/419-GA/EF/3212 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO SECOND COMMITTEE, WARNS THAT DELAYING ACTION ON MULTIPLE CRISES WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE GA/10763 UNITED NATIONS MUST TAKE LEAD IN FINDING CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CRISES, SAY SPEAKERS AS ASSEMBLY TAKES UP SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT GA/AB/3861 BUDGET COMMITTEE DEBATES SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS USED TO CALCULATE MEMBER STATES’ FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNITED NATIONS GA/DIS/3361 HUMANKIND STILL ‘CONFRONTS SELF-EXTINCTION ARISING FROM MASSIVE, COMPETITIVE BUILD-UP OF MOST DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS EVER PRODUCED’, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3211 ADOPT VARIED RESPONSES TO AVERT GLOBAL RECESSION, ADVISES DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AS SECOND COMMITTEE BEGINS ANNUAL GENERAL DEBATE GA/L/3339/Rev.1 LEGAL COMMITTEE MEETS UNDER DEADLINE FOR SETTING UP REVISED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AT UNITED NATIONS GA/PAL/1098 RIGHTS COMMITTEE SAYS ISRAEL MUST END ILLEGAL PRACTICES CALLS ON PALESTINIANS FOR DIALOGUE TOWARDS UNITY GA/SHC/3914 MULTIPLE GLOBAL CRISES POSE ‘SERIOUS CHALLENGE’ FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD, AS IT OPENS DEBATE FOR CURRENT SESSION GA/SPD/396 ERADICATING COLONIALISM REQUIRES FRESH, CONCRETE, CREATIVE IMPETUS, FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS AS GENERAL DEBATE OPENS ON DECOLONIZATION 3 October, 2008 GA/10762 REAFFIRMING COMMITMENT TO ALMATY PROGRAMME OF ACTION, MINISTERS PLEDGE TO ‘URGENTLY’ ADDRESS SPECIAL NEEDS OF LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES GA/AB/3860 UNITED NATIONS REFORM NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT RESOURCES, INVESTMENTS, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AS BUDGET COMMITTEE HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING 2 October, 2008 GA/10759-OBV/732 SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARKING DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NOTES LINK BETWEEN CELEBRATION, BIRTH DATE OF MAHATMA GANDHI GA/10760 HIGH TRANSIT COSTS, ISOLATION FROM WORLD MARKETS, WEIGH DOWN GROWTH IN LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES, MINISTERS TELL ASSEMBLY’S HIGH-LEVEL MEETING GA/DIS/3360 FIRST COMMITTEE WILL BEGIN DEBATE ON 6 OCTOBER; ITEMS INCLUDE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION, AVERTING OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE, STAUNCHING ILLICIT ARMS TRADE GA/SPD/395 FOURTH COMMITTEE, APPROVING WORK PROGRAMME, AGREES TO CONSIDER PEACEKEEPING, DECOLONIZATION, ISRAELI PRACTICES, OUTER SPACE, ATOMIC RADIATION ITEMS SG/SM/11846-GA/10761-DEV/2695 TRANSPORT COSTS NOW BIGGER BARRIER TO TRADE THAN TARIFFS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON SPECIAL NEEDS OF LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 29 September, 2008 GA/10758/Rev. 1 UNITED NATIONS CAN CHANNEL ‘BIG POWER CLOUT’ TO ENSURE INTERESTS OF SMALLER STATES, GET ATTENTION, WORLD LEADERS SAY AT CONCLUSION OF GENERAL DEBATE GA/EF/3210 POVERTY ERADICATION, FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, DISASTER REDUCTION AMONG KEY TOPICS FOR CONSIDERATION AS SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES ORGANIZATION OF WORK 27 September, 2008 GA/10757 ON STATE SOVEREIGNTY, DISARMAMENT MATTERS, WORLD LEADERS URGE SOLIDARITY OVER SELECTIVITY, AS ASSEMBLY CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE 26 September, 2008 GA/10756 WORLD LEADERS REAFFIRM CENTRAL ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS IN CRAFTING GLOBAL RESPONSE TO CURRENT FOOD, FUEL, FINANCIAL CRISES 25 September, 2008 GA/10752 AT CONCLUSION OF HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT BACKS SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PROPOSAL FOR REVIEW MEETING GA/10754 REELING FROM IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING, SMALL ISLAND STATES URGE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO TAKE COMPREHENSIVE ACTION SG/SM/11821-GA/10753-DEV/2687 SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES LEADERS AT MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS EVENT TO BE BOLD, GENEROUS IN THEIR COMMITMENTS -- ‘TELL US WHAT YOU WILL DO, HOW YOU WILL DO IT’ SG/SM/11826-GA/10755-DEV/2691 VOICING OPTIMISM IN CONCLUDING REMARKS TO HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CULTURE OF INDIFFERENCE CANNOT CONTINUE 24 September, 2008 GA/10751 GOOD GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS CRUCIAL IN COMBAT AGAINST TERRORISM, ORGANIZED CRIME, WORLD LEADERS TELL ASSEMBLY ON SECOND DAY OF GENERAL DEBATE 23 September, 2008 GA/10749 SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR ‘GLOBAL LEADERSHIP’ TO TACKLE WORLD ECONOMIC WOES, FOOD, ENERGY CRISES, AS SIXTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE SG/SM/11806-GA/10750 SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS NATIONS CAN NO LONGER PROTECT INTERESTS, ADVANCE WELL-BEING OF THEIR PEOPLE, WITHOUT PARTNERSHIP OF THE REST, AT GENERAL DEBATE’S OPENING 22 September, 2008 GA/10748 WORLD LEADERS PLEDGE TO REINVIGORATE ‘GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP OF EQUALS’ TO END POVERTY, HUNGER, UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 19 September, 2008 GA/10746 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS WORK PROGRAMME FOR SIXTY-THIRD SESSION, INCLUDES REQUEST FOR INTERNATIONAL COURT OPINION ON KOSOVO’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE GA/10747-AFR/1748 TURN ‘VISION INTO ACTION’ BY LIVING UP TO COMMITMENTS, SPECIAL ADVISER URGES WORLD LEADERS ON EVE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ON AFRICA GA/SM/387-OBV/725 WORLD PEACE WILL ONLY BE WON BY ACTIVELY RESISTING ALL THAT NEGATES OR DIMINISHES HUMAN DIGNITY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY 16 September, 2008 BIO/4022-GA/10745 MIGUEL D’ESCOTO BROCKMANN OF NICARAGUA, PRESIDENT OF SIXTY-THIRD UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION BIO/4023-GA/DIS/3359 MARCO ANTONIO SUAZO OF HONDURAS CHAIRMAN OF FIRST COMMITTEE BIO/4024-GA/EF/3209 UCHE JOY OGWU OF NIGERIA CHAIRMAN OF SECOND COMMITTEE BIO/4025-GA/SHC/3913 FRANK MAJOOR OF NETHERLANDS CHAIRMAN OF THIRD COMMITTEE BIO/4026-GA/SPD/394 JORGE ARGÜELLO OF ARGENTINA CHAIRMAN OF FOURTH COMMITTEE BIO/4027-GA/AB/3859 GÁBOR BRÓDI OF HUNGARY CHAIRMAN OF FIFTH COMMITTEE BIO/4028-GA/L/3338 HAMID AL BAYATI OF IRAQ CHAIRMAN OF SIXTH COMMITTEE GA/10744 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO WORK FOR STRONGER ASSEMBLY, MORE DEMOCRATIC UNITED NATIONS, AS SIXTY-THIRD SESSION OPENS 15 September, 2008 GA/10741-OBV/720 SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY ‘CENTRAL MISSION’ FOR UNITED NATIONS, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOLDS FIRST OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY GA/10743 OUTGOING GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT WRAPS UP SIXTY-SECOND SESSION BY CALLING ON MEMBER STATES TO CONTINUE TACKLING CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES SG/SM/11791-GA/10742-OBV/721 DEMOCRACY ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING FUNDAMENTAL GOALS OF PEACE, HUMAN RIGHTS, DEVELOPMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY 11 September, 2008 GA/10740 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS WIDE-RANGING RESOLUTION SUPPORTING STEPS TO PROMOTE PEACE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 8 September, 2008 DEV/2676-ECO/132-GA/10739 GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOSTS INFORMAL TALKS ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 8–10 SEPTEMBER 5 September, 2008 GA/10738 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES TWO-DAY DEBATE BY RENEWING COMMITMENT TO STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN PREVENTING, COMBATING TERRORISM 4 September, 2008 GA/10735 INTENSIFIED EFFORT TO IMPLEMENT UN COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY ‘FUNDAMENTAL DUTY’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS TO ASSESS PROGRESS SG/SM/11775-GA/10736 MWANAWASA’S PRESENCE WILL BE MISSED, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TRIBUTE TO LATE PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA SG/SM/11776-GA/10737 IN REMARKS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SPELLS OUT KEY PRINCIPLES FOR ENHANCING COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION 3 September, 2008 GA/COL/3182 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES DRAFT DECISION RECOMMENDING THAT ECUADOR BECOME ITS TWENTY-EIGHTH MEMBER 2 September, 2008 GA/PAL/1097 PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE APPROVES PROVISIONAL WORK PROGRAMME FOR DECEMBER MEETING TO BE HELD IN CHILE; APPROVES NICARAGUA’S MEMBERSHIP REQUEST 11 August, 2008 GA/SPD/393 FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT URGING IMPLEMENTATION OF SUBSIDIARY BODY’S PROPOSALS ON REVIEW OF ALL UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING QUESTIONS 28 July, 2008 GA/10733 SHOW COMMITMENT TO 2008 GAMES BY STRENGTHENING PEACE, HARMONY CULTURE BASED ON SPIRIT OF OLYMPIC TRUCE, URGES GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SG/SM/11720-GA/10734-HR/4958 SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES AIM TO KEEP HUMAN RIGHTS ‘HIGH ON AGENDA’ AS HE WELCOMES GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDORSEMENT OF NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER 23 July, 2008 GA/10732 WELCOMING SECRETARY-GENERAL’S DECISION TO CREATE TRUST FUND FOR SPORT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RELATED TEXT ON PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT, PEACE 21 July, 2008 GA/10731 RAISE INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE OR FACE POLITICAL UNREST, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY URGED AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES DEBATE ON GLOBAL FOOD, ENERGY CRISES 18 July, 2008 GA/10729 SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR INCREASED PUBLIC SPENDING TO MEET NEEDS TRIGGERED BY SOARING COSTS OF FOOD, ENERGY AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS GLOBAL CRISES SG/SM/11707-GA/10730 ‘DOUBLE JEOPARDY’ OF HIGH FOOD, FUEL PRICES THREATENS TO UNDERMINE PROGRESS TOWARDS GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REMARKS 14 July, 2008 GA/PAL/1096 INTENSE SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY BY ISRAEL THREATENS TO DERAIL MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD 11 July, 2008 GA/10728 GENERAL ASSEMBLY EXTENDS UNTIL 31 DECEMBER TERMS FOR ITS MEMBERS ON PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION’S ORGANIZATIONAL BODY, ADDS AGENDA ITEM ON RWANDA TRIBUNAL JUDGES 10 July, 2008 GA/10727 GENERAL COMMITTEE DECIDES TO INCLUDE RWANDA TRIBUNAL ITEM ON CURRENT ASSEMBLY AGENDA; DEFERS DECISION ON YUGOSLAVIA JUDGES; TURNS DOWN FAMINE COMMEMORATION 8 July, 2008 DSG/SM/404-ENV/DEV/998-GA/10726 UNLESS ACTION IS TAKEN ON A WAR-FOOTING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE, WORLD WILL MISS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SEE GAINS UNRAVEL, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL GA/10725 BATTLE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE CALLS FOR ‘WAR FOOTING’, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOLDS FOLLOW-UP TO FEBRUARY THEMATIC DEBATE 3 July, 2008 GA/PK/198 CONCLUDING 2008 SESSION, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS ADOPTS REPORT, ELECTS FIRST EVER WOMAN CHAIRPERSON 23 June, 2008 GA/COL/3181 CONCLUDING SESSION, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES TWO TEXTS ON NEW CALEDONIA, TOKELAU; HEARS APPEALS TO HEED CRITICISM OF ITS WORK 20 June, 2008 GA/10724 GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES $7 BILLION IN FINANCING FOR 15 PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS, ADOPTS TEXT ON SUPPORT ACCOUNT, PROCUREMENT REFORM GA/PAL/1095 SPEAKERS IN SPECIAL MEETING TO MARK 60 YEARS OF DISPOSSESSION OF PALESTINE REFUGEES SAY PLIGHT IS LONGEST-STANDING CRISIS ON UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 19 June, 2008 GA/COL/3180 SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE ADOPTS REPORT OF PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR, APPROVES RECOMMENDATIONS ON, AMONG OTHER TOPICS, LIST OF TERRITORIES 18 June, 2008 GA/COL/3179 AS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION CONSIDERS QUESTION OF GIBRALTAR, TERRITORY’S CHIEF MINISTER SAYS ITS DECOLONIZATION ‘NO LONGER PENDING’ 17 June, 2008 GA/PAL/1094 UNITED NATIONS MEETING TO MARK 60 YEARS OF DISPOSSESSION OF PALESTINE REFUGEES TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS ON FRIDAY, 20 JUNE 13 June, 2008 GA/AB/3858 BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS $7 BILLION FOR FINANCING 15 PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS, AS IT CONCLUDES SECOND RESUMED SESSION 12 June, 2008 GA/10723 UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES URGED TO DRAMATICALLY SCALE UP EFFORTS TO ATTAIN UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HIV/AIDS PREVENTION, TREATMENT, SUPPORT BY 2010 GA/COL/3178 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING FOR DIRECT TALKS OVER QUESTION OF FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) 11 June, 2008 GA/10722 NEED TO EMPOWER WOMEN, ESTABLISH COMPLETE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS UNDERLINED, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES REVIEW OF PROGRESS ON HIV/AIDS GA/COL/3177 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS TEXT REAFFIRMING SELF-DETERMINATION AS FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT 10 June, 2008 GA/10719 SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANT PROGRESS MADE TOWARDS UNIVERSAL HIV/AIDS PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY HIGH-LEVEL MEETING SG/SM/11628-GA/10720-AIDS/140 SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY CITES SOME ENCOURAGING TRENDS IN COMBATING HIV/AIDS, YET UNACCEPTABLE RATE OF NEW INFECTIONS; CALLS ON ALL TO BRIDGE GAPS SG/SM/11630-GA/10721-AIDS/141 SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CIVIL SOCIETY HEARINGS FOR HIGH-LEVEL AIDS MEETING: ‘WE MUST KEEP OUR FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR, NAVIGATE THE LONGER ROAD MAP AT THE SAME TIME’ 9 June, 2008 GA/10718 PRIVATE FINANCE WILL PLAY KEY ROLE IN MASSIVE INVESTMENT NEEDED TO SHAPE TRANSITION TO LOW-CARBON GLOBAL ECONOMY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING TOLD GA/COL/3176 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS TEXT CALLING ON UNITED STATES TO EXPEDITE SELF-DETERMINATION PROCESS FOR PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE 6 June, 2008 GA/10717 GENERAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONES CONSIDERATION OF DRAFT RESOLUTION ON PROCESS ESTABLISHED TO BOOST POLICY IDEAS IN MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT FIELD GA/AB/3857 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP $300 MILLION BUDGET FOR 2008/09 PEACEKEEPING SUPPORT ACCOUNT 5 June, 2008 GA/AB/3856 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSED CHANGES TO CONTINGENT-OWNED EQUIPMENT REIMBURSEMENT RATES SG/SM/11618-GA/10716 SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS CONGRATULATIONS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT-ELECT 4 June, 2008 DSG/SM/398-GA/10715 HAILING ELECTION OF 63RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR JOINT ACTION BY UPCOMING SESSION IN FORGING EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO PROBLEMS GA/10714 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS, BY ACCLAMATION, PRESIDENT FOR SIXTY-THIRD SESSION, BUREAU MEMBERS OF ITS MAIN COMMITTEES GA/AB/3855 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP $308 MILLION BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND CHAD GA/PAL/1092 ROUTE OF ISRAELI BARRIER SEVERELY IMPACTS PALESTINIAN LIVES, ISOLATES COMMUNITIES, EXPERT PANELLISTS SAY GA/PAL/1093 PARTICIPANTS IN MIDDLE EAST MEETING CALL FOR EARLY STATUS AGREEMENT 3 June, 2008 DSG/SM/397-GA/10713-HR/4956 ADD ‘PARTNERSHIP’ TO ‘THREE P’ AGENDA OF UNITED NATIONS ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROTOCOL, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES GENERAL ASSEMBLY THEMATIC DEBATE GA/10712 AT CONCLUSION OF THEMATIC DEBATE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR MORE ACTION TO HELP VICTIMS, PROSECUTE TRAFFICKERS, BOOST PREVENTION GA/AB/3854 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSED $1.7 BILLION BUDGET FOR AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN DARFUR GA/PAL/1089 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE OPENS IN MALTA GA/PAL/1091 EXPERT PANEL IN MALTA DISCUSSES PROBLEM OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS SG/SM/11613-GA/PAL/1090 SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON PALESTINE, STRESSES NEED FOR MORE POSITIVE STRATEGY TO EASE PUNISHING HUMANITARIAN CONDITIONS IN GAZA 2 June, 2008 GA/AB/3853 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSED $477 MILLION BUDGET FOR UNITED NATIONS CÔTE D’IVOIRE OPERATION 30 May, 2008 GA/AB/3852 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING OF UNITED NATIONS LOGISTICS BASE, HEARS FROM NEW HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF FIELD SUPPORT 27 May, 2008 GA/COL/3175 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES THREE TEXTS CONCERNING DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, VISITING MISSIONS TO NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES 23 May, 2008 GA/PAL/1088 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE TO BE HELD IN MALTA 3-4 JUNE, UNDER THEME, ‘ADVANCING PEACE PROCESS -- CHALLENGES FACING THE PARTIES’ 22 May, 2008 GA/10711 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR NEW CULTURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, WITH PRINCIPLE OF HUMAN SECURITY AT ITS CORE, DURING DAY-LONG DEBATE 21 May, 2008 GA/10710 AFTER SINGLE ROUND OF BALLOTING, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS 15 COUNTRIES TO SERVE THREE-YEAR TERMS ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL GA/AB/3851 SPEAKERS UNDERSCORE VALUE OF QUICK-IMPACT PROJECTS AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS PROPOSED BUDGETS FOR PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS IN TIMOR-LESTE, LIBERIA 20 May, 2008 GA/AB/3850 DELEGATES VOICE CONCERN OVER CONTINUING FRAGILITY OF UNITED NATIONS FUNDING AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS IMPROVING ORGANIZATION’S FINANCIAL SITUATION 19 May, 2008 GA/10709 GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS HUMAN SECURITY IN ONE-DAY THEMATIC DEBATE ON 22 MAY 16 May, 2008 GA/COL/3174 PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR ON DECOLONIZATION ADOPTS DRAFT REPORT AS THREE-DAY MEETING IN BANDUNG, INDONESIA, CONCLUDES 15 May, 2008 GA/10708 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING RIGHT OF RETURN BY REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS TO ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA GA/AB/3849 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING OF PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS IN CYPRUS, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO GA/COL/3173 DELEGATES DISCUSS NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES OF WESTERN SAHARA, FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), TOKELAU AS PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR ENTERS SECOND DAY 14 May, 2008 GA/COL/3172 DECOLONIZATION UNITED NATIONS SUCCESS STORY, BUT MONUMENTAL TASK INCOMPLETE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AS PACIFIC SEMINAR ON ISSUE OPENS IN INDONESIA SG/SM/11568-GA/COL/3171 ‘COLONIALISM HAS NO PLACE IN TODAY’S WORLD,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR IN INDONESIA 12 May, 2008 GA/AB/3848 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR FORCE MONITORING ISRAEL-SYRIA CEASEFIRE, HAITI STABILIZATION MISSION, WESTERN SAHARA REFERENDUM MISSION 9 May, 2008 GA/AB/3847 CONTROLLER DESCRIBES ‘ENCOURAGING SIGNS OF PROGRESS’ IN UN FINANCIAL SITUATION, SAYS 2008 OUTCOME DEPENDENT ON ACTION BY SMALL NUMBER OF COUNTRIES GA/COL/3170 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION TO HOLD PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR IN BANDUNG, INDONESIA, 14-16 MAY 8 May, 2008 GA/AB/3846 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP $7.4 BILLION PROPOSAL FOR 2008/09 PEACEKEEPING, BOARD OF AUDITORS REPORT ON 2006/07 PEACEKEEPING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 5 May, 2008 GA/AB/3845 BUDGET COMMITTEE OPENS FOUR-WEEK HEADQUARTERS SESSION WITH FOCUS ON PEACEKEEPING FINANCE 30 April, 2008 GA/PAL/1086 UNITED NATIONS, PALESTINE REFUGEES DISCUSSED DURING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GA/PAL/1087 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE REFUGEES CONCLUDES IN PARIS 29 April, 2008 GA/10707 GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES SOME 700 CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES FOR HIGH-LEVEL MEETING TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF DECLARATIONS ON HIV/AIDS, 10-11 JUNE GA/PAL/1083 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE REFUGEES OPENS IN PARIS GA/PAL/1085 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ADDRESSES RIGHTS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES SG/SM/11540-GA/PAL/1084 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO PARIS CONFERENCE, SAYS 2008 MARKS 'SIXTIETH YEAR OF PALESTINIAN DISPOSSESSION', UNDERLINES URGENCY OF FINDING SOLUTION TO QUESTION 23 April, 2008 GA/PAL/1081 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PALESTINE REFUGEES TO BE HELD IN PARIS, 29 - 30 APRIL GA/PAL/1082 PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BRIEFED ON DETERIORATING SITUATION IN GAZA STRIP, WEST BANK; APPROVES PROGRAMMES FOR PARIS, MALTA SEMINARS 18 April, 2008 GA/10705 POPE BENEDICT XVI URGES WORLD LEADERS TO ‘ACT JOINTLY’ ON GLOBAL PROBLEMS, SUPPORT INSTITUTIONS THAT PROMOTE ‘COMMON GOOD’, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESS SG/SM/11518-GA/10706 SECRETARY-GENERAL, INTRODUCING POPE BENEDICT XVI TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SAYS ‘IN SO MANY WAYS, OUR MISSION UNITES US WITH YOURS’ 15 April, 2008 GA/COL/3169 SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE DECIDES TO HOLD 2008 PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR IN BANDUNG, INDONESIA, 14 TO 16 MAY 10 April, 2008 DSG/SM/383-GA/10704 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTLINES STEPS TO STRENGTHEN ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY, AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON MANAGEMENT REFORM 8 April, 2008 GA/10702 MANDATE IMPLEMENTATION, BUDGET PROCESS, HUMAN RESOURCES AMONG KEY ISSUES, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY THEMATIC DEBATE ON MANAGEMENT REFORM SG/SM/11502-GA/10703-ORG/1496 EVERYTHING UNITED NATIONS DOES - DIPLOMACY, PEACEKEEPING - HINGES ON SOUND MANAGEMENT OF LIMITED RESOURCES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GA DEBATE 4 April, 2008 GA/10700 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES THEMATIC DEBATE AIMED AT GALVANIZING SUPPORT FOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY 2015 GA/10701-DEV/2664 AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR ACTION ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, PRESIDENT PROPOSES ANNUAL MEETINGS TO HOLD PARTNERS ACCOUNTABLE 3 April, 2008 GA/10698 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ACTS ON FINANCING FOR POLITICAL MISSIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, FIELD MISSIONS OF PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION, SALARIES OF TRIBUNAL JUDGES GA/10699 UNIVERSAL EDUCATION, EMPOWERING WOMEN, IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON DEVELOPMENT AMONG ISSUES, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES DEBATE ON ANTI-POVERTY GOALS 2 April, 2008 GA/10697 FAILURE NOT AN OPTION ON ROAD TO 2015, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS, AS HE PROPOSES ANNUAL ‘STOCK-TAKING’ DEBATES ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS 1 April, 2008 GA/10695 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY DEBATE AIMED AT SPURRING PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY 2015 SG/SM/11487-DEV/2663-GA/10696 MIXED RECORD ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS UNDERLINES NEED FOR SUSTAINED PUSH TO MEET TARGETS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY THEMATIC DEBATE 31 March, 2008 GA/10694 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON EASING GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY CRISIS, WELCOMES RUSSIAN OFFER TO HOST RELATED HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE IN 2009 28 March, 2008 GA/AB/3844 BUDGET COMMITTEE ACTS ON FINANCING FOR SPECIAL POLITICAL MISSIONS, PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION FIELD MISSIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, AS RESUMED SESSION CONCLUDES 26 March, 2008 GA/AB/3843 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP $51.85 MILLION FINANCING PROPOSAL FOR FIVE SPECIAL POLITICAL MISSIONS 17 March, 2008 GA/AB/3842 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP SECRETARY-GENERAL’S $21.04 MILLION PROPOSAL TO STRENGTHEN UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS 14 March, 2008 GA/10693 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF AZERBAIJAN, DEMANDING WITHDRAWAL OF ALL ARMENIAN FORCES GA/AB/3841 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSALS TO ENSURE EQUALITY IN COMPENSATION OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE JUDGES 11 March, 2008 GA/AB/3840 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP UNITED NATIONS PROCUREMENT GA/PK/197 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE BY TAKING UP QUESTIONS OF RESOURCES, RESTRUCTURING, PERSONNEL 10 March, 2008 GA/AB/3839 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE TIMELINESS, QUALITY OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS GA/PK/196 UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES LACK OF SUSTAINED INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AS CRITICAL TO DIFFICULTIES OF MAINTAINING PEACEKEEPING GAINS MADE IN KEY CONFLICT AREAS 5 March, 2008 GA/AB/3838 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION FIELD MISSIONS 4 March, 2008 GA/10692 ON RECOMMENDATION OF ITS BUDGETARY COMMITTEE, GENERAL ASSEMBLY DECIDES TO HOLD HIGH-LEVEL SESSION IN SEPTEMBER ON AFRICA’S SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS GA/AB/3837 UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RESOURCES STRUCTURES MUST BE ADAPTED TO MEET GROWING DEMANDS OF PEACEKEEPING, OTHER FIELD OPERATIONS, BUDGET COMMITTEE TOLD 3 March, 2008 GA/AB/3836 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF JOINT INSPECTION UNIT AS IT BEGINS RESUMED SESSION 29 February, 2008 GA/PAL/1080 STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ON SITUATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY 28 February, 2008 GA/COL/3167 DECOLONIZATION ONE OF ‘PROUDEST CHAPTERS’ IN UNITED NATIONS HISTORY SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS SPECIAL COMMITTEE OPENS SESSION SG/SM/11440-GA/COL/3168 SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PROUD UN CHAPTER, DECOLONIZATION, ‘STILL BEING WRITTEN’, LOOKS TO SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO ADVANCE PROCESS IN REMAINING TERRITORIES 21 February, 2008 GA/PAL/1079 PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BUREAU VISITS CAMPS FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN JORDAN 20 February, 2008 GA/PAL/1076 JORDAN SEMINAR TOLD NEGOTIATED POLITICAL SOLUTION ON FINAL STATUS PRECONDITION TO SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PALESTINIAN AREAS GA/PAL/1077 PLANNING MINISTERS, ECONOMISTS CONSIDER WAYS TO BOLSTER SAGGING PALESTINIAN ECONOMY, ON JORDAN SEMINAR’S SECOND DAY GA/PAL/1078 BUILDING PALESTINIAN STATE IS NO LONGER DREAM, BUT STRATEGIC VIABLE OBJECTIVE, JORDAN’S AMBASSADOR SAYS AS SEMINAR CONCLUDES 19 February, 2008 GA/PAL/1075 NEXUS BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, STATEHOOD IS FOCUS OF UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE 14 February, 2008 GA/10691-ENV/DEV/971 GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONTINUE SUPPORT FOR BROAD-BASED CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION; WILL MEET TWICE MORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES THIS YEAR GA/PAL/1072 PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, MEETING FOR FIRST TIME IN 2008, ELECTS BUREAU, CHARTS COURSE FOR YEAR GA/PAL/1074 PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, GOVERNMENT OF JORDAN TO CONVENE SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, IN AMMAN, 19-20 FEBRUARY SG/SM/11418-GA/PAL/1073 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, SAYS IMPROVING SITUATION ON GROUND URGENT, BUT EVENTS THIS YEAR HAVE HINDERED PROGRESS 13 February, 2008 GA/10690 GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S DEBATE TESTAMENT TO IMPORTANCE OF TAKING IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL STEPS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE THREAT, SAYS ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT 12 February, 2008 GA/10689 SMALL ISLAND COUNTRIES SAY CLIMATE CHANGE ALREADY THREATENS ‘VERY EXISTENCE’, URGE IMMEDIATE AID TO VULNERABLE STATES, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE 11 February, 2008 GA/10687 ‘ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE: THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE WORLD AT WORK’ THEME, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY DEBATE AT HEADQUARTERS SG/SM/11408-GA/10688-ENV/DEV/968 ‘WE HAVE MOVED CLIMATE CHANGE UP TO TOP OF THE AGENDA, WHERE IT BELONGS; WE CANNOT NOW LET THOSE WHO DEPEND ON US DOWN,’ SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 4 February, 2008 GA/PAL/1071 ALARMED AT DETERIORATING SITUATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BUREAU WARNS RECENT POLITICAL MOMENTUM COULD BE JEOPARDIZED 24 December, 2007 GA/10686 ‘DYNAMIC AND VITAL’ GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAID GROUNDWORK TO TACKLE CRUCIAL ISSUES, INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE, TERRORISM, ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, PROMOTING TOLERANCE SG/SM/11348-GA/10685 SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES BUDGET, URGES RETURN TO CONSENSUS DECISION-MAKING 22 December, 2007 GA/10684 CONCLUDING MAIN PART OF SESSION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS $4.17 BILLION BUDGET EARLY SATURDAY, IN WAKE OF FIFTH COMMITTEE’S DIPLOMATIC BREAKTHROUGH GA/AB/3835 FIFTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 2008-2009 BUDGET OF $4.17 BILLION, AS IT CONCLUDES WORK FOR MAIN PART OF CURRENT SESSION 19 December, 2007 GA/10682 GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORKING GROUP ADOPTS STRATEGY ON ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, ABUSE BY UN PERSONNEL GA/10683 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS LANDMARK RESOLUTION CONCERNING UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM, AS IT TAKES ACTION ON 32 TEXTS APPROVED BY SECOND COMMITTEE GA/AB/3834 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP BUDGET IMPLICATIONS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ANTI-RACISM TEXT, INCLUDING 2009 DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE 18 December, 2007 ENV/DEV/966-GA/10680 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS LANDMARK INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON FORESTS, SETTING NEW STANDARD FOR THEIR MANAGEMENT GA/10678 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS LANDMARK TEXT CALLING FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY GA/10681 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF MARINE RESOURCES, ADOPTING 13-PART CONSENSUS TEXT GA/AB/3833 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP SECOND PERFORMANCE REPORT ON 2006-2007 BUDGET, FINANCING IMPLICATIONS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAW OF THE SEA TEXT GA/EF/3208 SECOND COMMITTEE, CONCLUDING SIXTY-SECOND SESSION, APPROVES TEXT ON TRIENNIAL POLICY REVIEW OF UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES SG/SM/11343-GA/10679 SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ASSEMBLY’S ADOPTION OF DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM CALL 17 December, 2007 GA/10677 ON FOURTH COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 26 TEXTS ON MINES, DECOLONIZATION, ATOMIC RADIATION, ISRAELI PRACTICES, AMONG OTHER TOPICS 13 December, 2007 GA/10675 GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGES STEPPED UP EFFORT TO MEET ‘WORLD FIT FOR CHILDREN’ PLEDGES, AS HIGH-LEVEL REVIEW OF 2002 SPECIAL SESSION CONCLUDES AT HEADQUARTERS GA/AB/3831 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP $197 MILLION BUDGET FOR NEWLY ESTABLISHED MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND CHAD 12 December, 2007 GA/10674 SPEAKERS CALL FOR POLITICAL WILL, STRONG PARTNERSHIPS, SMART INVESTMENT TO BUILD BETTER WORLD FOR CHILDREN, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S HIGH-LEVEL SESSION CONTINUES 11 December, 2007 GA/10672 GOVERNMENTS MUST RENEW POLITICAL WILL TO OFFSET GAPS IN CHILD WELL-BEING, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT AS HE OPENS HIGH–LEVEL COMMEMORATIVE SESSION GA/EF/3207/Rev.1 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CALLING ON MEMBER STATES, UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM TO STEP UP PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT GA/SM/386 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT STRONGLY CONDEMNS ALGIERS BOMB ATTACKS SG/SM/11321-GA/10673 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL MEETING, PRESENTS FIRST COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND CHILDREN 10 December, 2007 DSG/SM/363-GA/10671-SEA/1895 IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES LAW OF SEA TREATY’S GAINS, CHALLENGES, INCLUDING DEPLETED FISHERIES, PIRACY, DEGRADED MARINE ENVIRONMENT GA/10670 GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATES $993 MILLION FOR CAPITAL MASTER PLAN IN 2008-2009; AUTHORIZES ‘ACCELERATED STRATEGY’ PROPOSED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL 7 December, 2007 GA/EF/3206 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT EXPRESSING SERIOUS CONCERN OVER LACK OF PROGRESS IN DOHA TRADE NEGOTIATIONS 6 December, 2007 DSG/SM/361-DEV/2652-GA/10668 NO MORE IMPORTANT UNITED NATIONS MISSION THAN HELPING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SHARE WORLD’S PROSPERITY, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN NEW YORK REMARKS GA/10667 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 20 TEXTS RECOMMENDED BY LEGAL COMMITTEE, ADDRESSING DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION, UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, TERRORISM GA/10669 URGENT ACTION NEEDED ON ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, MILLIONS OF LIVES ‘HANG IN THE BALANCE’ SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, AT MEETING ON DEVELOPMENT GA/AB/3830 FIFTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS $993 MILLION FOR 2008-2009 CAPITAL MASTER PLAN BUDGET, ALSO APPROVES TEXTS ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, PROGRAMME PLANNING 5 December, 2007 GA/10666 GENERAL ASSEMBLY MOVES TO DECREASE OPERATIONAL READINESS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS SYSTEMS, BY 1 OF 52 TEXTS ADOPTED ON RECOMMENDATION OF FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3205 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CALLING FOR REVIEW OF ACTION PROGRAMME FOR LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AS IT ACTS ON DRAFT RESOLUTIONS 4 December, 2007 GA/10665-PAL/2093 BUDGET FOR UNITED NATIONS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES PROMISED CONTRIBUTIONS BY 22 COUNTRIES, AS OTHER GOVERNMENTS EXPRESS INTENT TO PLEDGE LATER 30 November, 2007 GA/10664 GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS SAY ANNAPOLIS MEETING MARKS NEW PHASE IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE, BUT CAUTION EARLIER INITIATIVES ALSO RAISED HOPES, FAILED TO BRING ABOUT AGREEMENT GA/EF/3204 FOUR TEXTS APPROVED BY SECOND COMMITTEE WOULD BOOST INITIATIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE, PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GA/PAL/1070 BUREAU OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ISSUES STATEMENT ON ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE, SAYING IT OPENED NEW PAGE IN INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE PEACE IN REGION 29 November, 2007 GA/10663 ANNAPOLIS MEETING GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR TWO-STATE SOLUTION IN MIDDLE EAST, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, AS DEBATE BEGINS ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE GA/PAL/1069 ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS, SECRETARY-GENERAL HERALDS ANNAPOLIS AS ‘NEW BEGINNING’ IN EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE TWO-STATE SOLUTION 28 November, 2007 GA/EF/3203 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT ON NON-LEGALLY BINDING INSTRUMENT ON FORESTS, PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL REGULATIONS OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME GA/PAL/1068-OBV/669 SPECIAL MEETING, OTHER EVENTS PLANNED AT HEADQUARTERS TO OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, 29 NOVEMBER GA/SHC/3912 RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, GIRL CHILD, PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED, AS THIRD COMMITTEE ADOPTS SIX TEXTS, CONCLUDES CURRENT SESSION 27 November, 2007 GA/SHC/3911 THIRD COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN, AS IT APPROVES FIVE DRAFT TEXTS 26 November, 2007 GA/10662 STRENGTHENED GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEEDED ‘TO FIND GLOBAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL PROBLEMS’ PRESIDENT SAYS, AS REVITALIZATION OF WORK DEBATED GA/SPD/392 FOURTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES WORK FOR SESSION, HANDS OVER 26 DRAFT TEXTS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON PALESTINE REFUGEES, DECOLONIZATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION, OUTER SPACE 21 November, 2007 GA/SHC/3910 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES 11 MORE DRAFTS FOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING ONE MORE COUNTRY-SPECIFIC TEXT THAT AGAIN DRAWS HEAVY CRITICISM 20 November, 2007 GA/10661 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS ‘DECADE OF RECOVERY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’ FOR COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY 1986 CHERNOBYL DISASTER GA/AB/3829 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF TASK FORCE ESTABLISHED TO INVESTIGATE UNITED NATIONS PROCUREMENT GA/PAL/1066 PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, APPROVING FOUR DRAFT TEXTS, DEMANDS THAT ISRAEL IMMEDIATELY STOP CONSTRUCTION OF SEPARATION WALL, SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES GA/PAL/1067 STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS ON FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242 (1967) ADOPTION GA/SHC/3909 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE COUNTRY-SPECIFIC TEXTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS DESPITE OPPOSITION LED BY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 19 November, 2007 GA/10660 GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES STRENGTHENING COORDINATION OF UNITED NATIONS EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER RELIEF GA/AB/3828 FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP $1.48 BILLION BUDGET FOR FIRST YEAR OF AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS DARFUR OPERATION GA/L/3337 RECOMMENDING 13 MORE TEXTS, SIXTH COMMITTEE ASKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO STRONGLY URGE STATES TO PUNISH UNITED NATIONS OFFICIALS, EXPERTS FOR CRIMES COMMITTED ON MISSION GA/SHC/3908 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES 14 TEXTS FOR ACTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 16 November, 2007 GA/EF/3201 CONDITIONS ‘SHACKLING’ AID WITH MILLENNIUM GOALS RISK PLUNGING POOR COUNTRIES INTO DEPENDENCY, SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION TOLD GA/EF/3202 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CALLING ON ISRAEL NOT TO EXPLOIT, DAMAGE OR ENDANGER NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS GA/SHC/3907 MAJORITY OF REAL, BURNING HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS IN WORLD HAVE NOT EARNED ATTENTION OF NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD 15 November, 2007 GA/10659 GENERAL ASSEMBLY FILLS SEATS ON SUBSIDIARY ORGANS; NOMINATIONS MATCH NUMBER OF VACANCIES, SO ALL DECISIONS BY CONSENSUS GA/AB/3827 UNITED NATIONS CAN MEET EVER-INCREASING CHALLENGES ONLY IF MEMBER STATES PAY CONTRIBUTIONS IN FULL, ON TIME, SAY SPEAKERS IN BUDGET COMMITTEE GA/SHC/3906 TWO-DAY DELIBERATIONS END WITH CONTENTIOUS RESOLUTION CALLING FOR MORATORIUM ON USE OF DEATH PENALTY APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE AFTER VOTE 14 November, 2007 GA/10658 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES MEMBER STATES NOT TO LET CURRENT MOMENTUM ON SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM BE UNDERMINED, AS DEBATE CONCLUDES GA/EF/3200 SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE UNDERSCORE IMPORTANCE OF FAVOURABLE INVESTMENT CLIMATE, MARKET ACCESS AS WAYS TO REDUCE GLOBAL ECONOMIC IMBALANCES GA/SHC/3905 TEN AMENDMENTS TO DRAFT PROPOSING MORATORIUM ON USE OF DEATH PENALTY REJECTED BY RECORDED VOTES IN THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/391 WORLD COMMUNITY’S INACTION TOWARDS ISRAEL ‘TANTAMOUNT TO CONDONING ITS ILLEGAL ACTIONS’, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE ON ISRAELI PRACTICES 13 November, 2007 GA/10657 SPEAKERS URGE START TO INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS ON SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM, TO BUILD ON PAST YEAR’S POSITIVE MOMENTUM, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE CONTINUES GA/EF/3198 UNITED NATIONS INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH UNDERGOING FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT TO FOCUS ON METHODOLOGY, NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE GA/EF/3199 NO SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS WITHOUT REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE, OTHER EMISSIONS, EXPERT SAYS DURING SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION GA/SPD/390 DEEPLY ALARMED BY NUMBER OF MINES LAID EACH YEAR, GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD URGE AID FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL MINE-ACTION CAPACITIES, BY FOURTH COMMITTEE DRAFT 12 November, 2007 GA/10656 OVERALL UNITED NATIONS REFORM INCOMPLETE WITHOUT REFORM OF SECURITY COUNCIL, SAY GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS, AS ANNUAL DEBATE ON ISSUE BEGINS GA/AB/3826 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF UNITED NATIONS JOINT STAFF PENSION BOARD GA/EF/3197 SPEAKER IN SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION CALLS INEQUALITY ‘BAD ECONOMICS’, CALLS FOR INTEGRATION OF GENDER PERSPECTIVE INTO MONTERREY FOLLOW-UP PROCESS GA/L/3336 LEGAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ASSEMBLY TO ASK UNITED STATES, HOST COUNTRY, TO CONTINUE MEASURES TO AID FUNCTIONING OF UNITED NATIONS MISSIONS GA/SPD/389 PALESTINE’S OBSERVER WARNS FOURTH COMMITTEE THAT WORLD COMMUNITY’S COMPLACENCY WILL EMBOLDEN ISRAEL TO CONTINUE TO VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS WITH IMPUNITY 9 November, 2007 GA/SHC/3904 THIRD COMMITTEE ASKS ASSEMBLY TO DESIGNATE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING 8 November, 2007 GA/10655 GENERAL ASSEMBLY DECLARES 15 SEPTEMBER INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DEMOCRACY; ALSO ELECTS 18 MEMBERS TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL GA/EF/3196 SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS CASE FOR UNITED NATIONS PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIVATE SECTOR AS VEHICLE WITH ‘ENORMOUS’ POTENTIAL FOR REALIZING DEVELOPMENT GOALS GA/SHC/3903 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT ASKING ASSEMBLY TO DECLARE 15 OCTOBER OF EACH YEAR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN GA/SPD/388 FOURTH COMMITTEE MEMBERS SEEK TO REINFORCE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES, AS ‘SAFETY NET’ AMID DETERIORATING SITUATION 7 November, 2007 GA/AB/3825 BUDGET COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON PATTERN OF CONFERENCES, OVERSIGHT BODIES; UNITED NATIONS CONTROLLER BRIEFS, SAYS 2007 FINANCIAL INDICATORS ‘MIXED’ GA/SHC/3902 OUTSOURCING MILITARY FUNCTIONS TO PRIVATE CONTRACTORS LEADS TO PRIVATIZATION OF WAR, THIRD COMMITTEE WARNED GA/SPD/387 UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES FACES DEMANDS ‘FROM ALL SIDES’ AGAINST BACKDROP OF ENDEMIC CRISES IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 6 November, 2007 GA/EF/3195 DELEGATE IN SECOND COMMITTEE SPELLS OUT FOUR KEY CHALLENGES KEEPING CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY FROM REALIZING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS GA/L/3335 LEGAL COMMITTEE HEARS FINAL COMMENTS ON EXTRADITION OR PROSECUTION, SHARED NATURAL RESOURCES, RESERVATIONS TO TREATIES GA/SHC/3901 ALTHOUGH DIFFERENT IN NAME, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, COUNCIL THE SAME, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/386 MINE BAN CONVENTION BOASTS LARGE SWATHES OF ‘MINE-FREE’ LAND, 40 MILLION MINES DESTROYED, NEAR HALT TO PRODUCTION, SALE, TRANSFER, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 5 November, 2007 GA/10654 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR CONTINUED EFFORT TO ADDRESS AFGHANISTAN’S CHALLENGES; SAYS ‘STRONG NEXUS’ BETWEEN DRUG TRADE, EXTREMISTS UNDERMINES STABILITY GA/AB/3824 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PROPOSALS ON REFORM OF UNITED NATIONS JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION GA/EF/3194 HIGH REPRESENTATIVE, IN SECOND COMMITTEE, PRESCRIBES COHESIVE POLICIES, DEEPER CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT TO HELP POOREST COUNTRIES MEET DEVELOPMENT GOALS GA/L/3334 LEGAL COMMITTEE HEARS CALL FOR LAW COMMISSION STUDY ON REASONS WHY COUNTRIES REFUSE EXTRADITION REQUESTS GA/SHC/3900 THIRTY TWO MEMBER STATES TO COME UNDER MICROSCOPE OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL’S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW MECHANISM BY JUNE 2008, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/385 FOURTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES COMPREHENSIVE PEACEKEEPING REVIEW, WITH DELEGATIONS STRESSING SAFETY, SECURITY TRAINING, COORDINATION, CLEAR COMMAND STRUCTURES 2 November, 2007 GA/10653 GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION, HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL BE ALLOCATED TO RESPECTIVE MAIN COMMITTEES FOR DEBATE GA/AB/3823 BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPOINTMENTS TO SUBSIDIARY BODIES, INCLUDING NEW INDEPENDENT AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE GA/DIS/3358 CONCLUDING WORK, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE WOULD HAVE GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE STATES TO SECURE NUCLEAR PLANTS TO PREVENT TERRORISTS’ USE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS GA/L/3333 PRESIDENT OF WORLD COURT, IN ADDRESS TO ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE, NOTES ‘INEQUALITY’ IN COMPENSATION OF JUDGES; ATTENTION NEEDED GA/SPD/384 RISKIER, MULTIDIMENSIONAL UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS INVOLVING MYRIAD ENTITIES, MECHANISMS REQUIRE EVER GREATER COORDINATION, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 1 November, 2007 GA/10652 PRESIDENTS OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PRESENT REPORTS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY GA/DIS/3357 CONCERNED ABOUT HIGH-ALERT STATUS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR DECREASE IN OPERATIONAL READINESS, BY NEW DRAFT APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3192 SECOND COMMITTEE DELEGATES CITE REFORM OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM, ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTION, BRIDGING TECHNOLOGICAL GAP AS VITAL TO INTEGRATION INTO WORLD ECONOMY GA/EF/3193 BANK CHIEF UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DURING SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION ON GLOBAL COMPACT’S PROGRESS GA/L/3332 LEGAL FRAMEWORK URGENTLY NEEDED FOR EQUITABLE MANAGEMENT OF WORLD’S WATER RESOURCES, ASSEMBLY’S SIXTH COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SHC/3899 THIRD COMMITTEE CALLS ON ASSEMBLY TO DESIGNATE 2 APRIL WORLD AUTISM DAY GA/SPD/383 DEPARTMENT OF FIELD SUPPORT, AS COMPLEMENT TO PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT, SHOULD BE COHERENT, UNIFIED, INCLUSIVE, FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS AS DEBATE OPENS 31 October, 2007 GA/10650 GENERAL ASSEMBLY WELCOMES RESULTS OF RECENT INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT IN PYONGYANG, CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF EMERGING DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION, REUNIFICATION GA/DIS/3356 APPROVING 15 DRAFTS, FIRST COMMITTEE URGES ALL STATES TO REMAIN SEIZED ‘AT HIGHEST POLITICAL LEVEL’ OF NEED TO OPERATIONALIZE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY GA/EF/3191 GROUP OF 77 CALLS FOR AGGRESSIVE BOOSTING OF FUNDING TO HELP ACHIEVE SHELTER FOR ALL, AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS GA/L/3331 LEGAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES ACCOUNTABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL BODIES FOR WRONGFUL ACTS, RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPENSATION PAYMENT GA/SHC/3898 MORE VITAL THAN EVER TO MOVE AWAY FROM SELECTIVITY AND PARTIAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SM/385 APPLAUDING TODAY’S RESOLUTION ON KOREAN REUNIFICATION, ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF ALL STATES IN ONGOING DIALOGUE GA/SPD/382 MOMENTOUS YEAR FOR UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING AS IT MOUNTS TWO UNIQUE OPERATIONS IN AFRICA, SUSTAINS 18 MORE, RESTRUCTURES DEPARTMENT, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD SG/SM/11250-GA/10651 HISTORIC INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT WILL PAVE WAY FOR PERMANENT PEACE, REUNIFICATION, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, WELCOMING GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 30 October, 2007 GA/10649 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OVERWHELMINGLY CALLS FOR END TO UNITED STATES EMBARGO OF CUBA; FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS BLOCKADE ‘RUTHLESS, HALF-CENTURY ECONOMIC WAR’ GA/AB/3822 BUDGET COMMITTEE DEBATES FUNDING FOR DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT GA/DIS/3355 GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR IMMEDIATE, URGENT STEPS TO REDUCE UNINTENTIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS USE, ACCORDING TO ONE OF 21 TEXTS APPROVED IN FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3190 CITY PLANNING WILL DETERMINE PACE OF GLOBAL WARMING, UN-HABITAT CHIEF TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE AS SHE LINKS URBAN POVERTY WITH CLIMATE CHANGE GA/L/3330 CIVIL, POLITICAL RIGHTS COVENANT SHOULD GOVERN APPROACH TO ISSUE OF ‘EXPULSION OF ALIENS’, ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SHC/3897 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT NOT PROHIBITED UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD 29 October, 2007 GA/10648 GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS STRONG SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, AS DIRECTOR GENERAL MOHAMED ELBARADEI PRESENTS ANNUAL REPORT GA/AB/3821 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP ISSUE OF PROGRAMME PLANNING, INCLUDING REPORT OF COMMITTEE FOR PROGRAMME AND COORDINATION GA/DIS/3354 ‘LOOPHOLES’ IN SMALL ARMS NORMS MUST BE CLOSED, AS ILLICIT WEAPONS WEAKEN STATE STABILITY, DESTROY ECONOMIC FABRIC, KILL HUNDREDS DAILY, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3189 AS SECOND COMMITTEE TAKES UP SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR VOICES PESSIMISM ABOUT CHANCES OF REDUCING DISASTER-RELATED LOSSES BY 2015 GA/L/3329 WORK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION RECOGNIZED AS ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE BEGINS WEEK-LONG REVIEW OF 2007 ACTIVITIES GA/SHC/3896 DARFUR REMAINS REGION WHERE GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARE PERPETRATED BY ALL PARTIES, RAPPORTEUR TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE GA/SPD/381 FOURTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION ON HUMANKIND, ENVIRONMENT; APPROVES DRAFT TEXT IN SUPPORT OF STRENGTHENED FUNDING FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 26 October, 2007 GA/AB/3820 DEVELOPMENT UNDER-FUNDED IN UNITED NATIONS PROPOSED 2008-2009 BUDGET, SAY SPEAKERS, AS FIFTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE GA/DIS/3353 SIGNING WEAPONS REDUCTION TREATIES, TALKING ABOUT NON-PROLIFERATION NOT ENOUGH; NATIONS MUST HAVE ‘POLITICAL STRENGTH’ FOR COMPLIANCE, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3188 FAILURE ON DOHA WOULD DAMAGE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES MOST, SAYS DELEGATE AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE, DEVELOPMENT GA/L/3328 ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD NATIONS COMING FROM CONFLICT NEED HELP IN ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE ‘RULE OF LAW’ GA/SHC/3895 SYSTEM OF IMPUNITY MAKING MOCKERY OF SPECIAL PROCEDURES TO ADDRESS EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS, RAPPORTEUR TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE 25 October, 2007 DSG/SM/346-GA/L/3327 PROMOTING RULE OF LAW ‘VERY HEART OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION’, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN LEGAL COMMITTEE REMARKS GA/10647 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT; LAYS GROUND FOR REVIEW OF PLEDGES MADE IN 2002 ‘MONTERREY CONSENSUS’ GA/AB/3818 PRESENTING $4.2 BILLION BUDGET FOR 2008-2009 TO ASSEMBLY’S FIFTH COMMITTEE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UN RESOURCES ‘NEVER STRETCHED SO THIN’ GA/COL/3166 TOKELAU FALLS SHY OF SELF-GOVERNMENT BY 16 VOTES AFTER FOUR DAYS OF BALLOTING IN SELF-DETERMINATION REFERENDUM GA/DIS/3352 RUSSIAN FEDERATION, UNITED STATES CALL ON STATES TO JOIN TREATY REGIME REJECTING INTERMEDIATE-RANGE, SHORTER-RANGE MISSILES, IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE GA/EF/3186 NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MODELS CAN HELP OVERCOME OCCASIONAL VOLATILITY, SAY SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE GA/EF/3187 TRADE NEGOTIATORS MAY SOON STRIKE DEAL ON SLASHING TRADE BARRIERS, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CHIEF SAYS DURING SECOND COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION GA/L/3326 AS LEGAL COMMITTEE BEGINS DEBATE ON RULE OF LAW, DELEGATES DISCUSS DIFFERENCES IN NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS GA/SHC/3894 THIRD COMMITTEE CALLS ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO FOCUS ON UPCOMING REVIEW OF MADRID PLAN OF ACTION ON AGEING GA/SPD/380 RECENT LAUNCH OF UNITED NATIONS PLATFORM FOR SPACE-BASED INFORMATION FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT, EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SPIDER) HAILED IN FOURTH COMMITTEE SG/SM/11237-GA/AB/3819 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO BUDGET COMMITTEE, SAYS PRIORITY ACTION NEEDED ON INSTITUTIONAL REFORM, SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION, STRENGTHENING HUMAN RIGHTS SG/SM/11238-GA/COL/3165 SECRETARY-GENERAL GRATIFIED BY CONDUCT OF TOKELAU’S SELF-DETERMINATION REFERENDUM 24 October, 2007 GA/10646 INCREASED, RELIABLE AID FLOWS, DEBT RELIEF, TRADE PROTECTIONISM AMONG ISSUES, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING GA/AB/3817 REVIEWING REVISED SCHEME FOR RENOVATION OF UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, BUDGET COMMITTEE MEMBERS SEEK ASSURANCES ON COST, RELATED ISSUES GA/DIS/3351 DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TACKLES BROAD RANGE OF ITEMS, INCLUDING CLUSTER MUNITIONS, SMALL ARMS, LANDMINES, VERIFICATION OF ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT TREATIES GA/SHC/3893 NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL COULD HELP PUT RIGHTS ABUSERS ON NOTICE, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SPD/379 SPACE SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE, EQUAL ACCESS TO SPACE-BASED TECHNOLOGIES, WARNINGS ABOUT OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE DOMINATE DEBATE IN FOURTH COMMITTEE 23 October, 2007 GA/10644 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, AIMS TO SET STAGE FOR NEXT YEAR’S REVIEW OF 2002 ‘MONTERREY CONSENSUS’ GA/AB/3816 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP ACCELERATED STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTING CAPITAL MASTER PLAN GA/DIS/3350 IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS TRANSFERS, SOARING DEATH TOLL FROM SMALL ARMS, LIGHT WEAPONS UNDERSCORE ‘PRESSING NEED’ FOR ARMS TRADE TREATY, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD GA/L/3325 REVIEWING ISSUES OF HARM, DAMAGE FROM UNLAWFUL TRANSBOUNDARY ACTIONS, LEGAL COMMITTEE WEIGHS MERITS OF GUIDELINES, FORMAL TREATY GA/SHC/3892 SEVEN DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON KEY HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES INTRODUCED TO THIRD COMMITTEE SG/SM/11232-GA/10645-DEV/2642 SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES RENEWED EFFORTS TO MEET MILLENNIUM GOALS FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC, SOCIAL PROGRESS 22 October, 2007 GA/10642-DEV/2640 SPECIAL MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 23-24 OCTOBER, TO ASSESS PROGRESS ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING GA/10643 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDS FOUR ITEMS TO AGENDA GA/DIS/3349 UNITED STATES SAYS DISCUSSING MERITS OF TREATIES TO PREVENT ‘WEAPONIZATION’ OF OUTER SPACE ‘POINTLESS’, AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONTINUES THEMATIC DEBATES GA/EF/3185 SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE CALL ON ISRAEL TO STOP DESTROYING INFRASTRUCTURE, CAUSING ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS GA/L/3324 SIXTH COMMITTEE SPEAKERS APPLAUD WORK OF UNCITRAL ON STEPS TO REMOVE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE GA/SHC/3891 GLOBAL WARMING, INCREASING EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DISPOSSESSING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF ANCESTRAL LANDS GA/SPD/378 UNITED NATIONS, AS ‘INDISPENSABLE FOUNDATION OF A PEACEFUL WORLD’, MUST BE HEARD CLEARLY, EFFECTIVELY, ACCORDING TO DRAFT RESOLUTION IN FOURTH COMMITTEE 19 October, 2007 GA/10640 GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS INCLUSION OF FOUR AGENDA ITEMS GA/10641 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES TWO-DAY DEBATE ON AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT; SPEAKERS CALL FOR FAIR TRADE, IMPROVED AID, CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS GA/DIS/3348 CHEMICAL WEAPONS’ CONVENTION DEADLINE OF 2012 FOR DESTRUCTION OF REMAINING CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILES ‘ENORMOUS CHALLENGE’, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3184 COUNTRY OWNERSHIP OF DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IMPROVES CHANCES OF MEETING NATIONAL PRIORITIES, SAY SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE ROUND TABLE GA/L/3323 LEGAL COMMITTEE SEES THREE OPTIONS FOR PURSUING ISSUE OF DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION; IN DEBATE, VIEWS DIFFER ON DESIRED OUTCOME GA/SHC/3890 INDEPENDENT EXPERT REITERATES CALL FOR MORE ATTENTION TO PLIGHT OF CHILD VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE GA/SPD/377 IN A WORLD YEARNING FOR BALANCED INFORMATION, PUBLIC INFORMATION DEPARTMENT MUST LEARN TO TAP, MANAGE RANGE OF INTERNET CHOICES, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD 18 October, 2007 GA/10638 AFRICAN STATES WARN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROMISE OF DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP UNDERMINED BY UNDELIVERED AID, RESTRICTIVE TRADE, DEBT GA/AB/3815 BUDGET COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT ON UN OFFICE FOR PARTNERSHIPS; TAKES UP ITEMS ON AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS, SECRETARIAT CONSOLIDATED REPORT GA/DIS/3347 DE-ALERTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR SLASHING NUMBER OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD AS IT CONCLUDES THEMATIC DEBATE SEGMENT GA/EF/3183 SPEAKERS STRESS NATIONAL OWNERSHIP OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS, EMPOWERING LOCAL PEOPLE, AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES GA/SHC/3889 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES RESOLUTION URGING STATES TO STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO PREVENT, SUPPRESS TERRORISM GA/SPD/376 TELLING UNITED NATIONS STORY REQUIRED METHOD, PURPOSE; AS ‘MEGAPHONE’, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION GUIDED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S VISION, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD SG/SM/11227-GA/10639-AFR/1598 DESPITE MANY POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS, SPECIAL NEEDS OF AFRICA REMAIN IMMENSE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE 17 October, 2007 GA/DIS/3345/Corr.1 DELAY IN REAPING ‘DISARMAMENT DIVIDEND’ DIVERTS RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT, FUELS CONFLICT, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD TODAY AS IT CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE GA/DIS/3346 NUCLEAR THREATS MORE DANGEROUS AND COMPLEX, WITH EMERGENCE OF ILLICIT NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TRADE, PRODUCTION TOUGHER TO VERIFY, IAEA TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3182 SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE CALL FOR STREAMLINED UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS, WHILE STRESSING IMPORTANCE OF SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION GA/L/3322 LEGAL COMMITTEE AGREES TO REVIEW CONDITIONS FOR USE OF SANCTIONS AS POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY ACTION GA/SHC/3888 FORMER CHILD SOLDIER TAKES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO TASK FOR FAILURE TO DO MORE FOR CHILDREN LIVING AMID CONFLICT 16 October, 2007 GA/10637 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS BURKINA FASO, COSTA RICA, CROATIA, LIBYA, VIET NAM TO TWO-YEAR TERMS ON SECURITY COUNCIL GA/AB/3814 REPORTS ON AIR TRAVEL STANDARDS, POSTAL ADMINISTRATION TAKEN UP BY BUDGET COMMITTEE GA/COL/3164 UNITED NATIONS TO OBSERVE REFERENDUM ON SELF-DETERMINATION IN NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORY OF TOKELAU, FROM 20 - 24 OCTOBER GA/DIS/3345 DELAY IN REAPING ‘DISARMAMENT DIVIDEND’ DIVERTS RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT, FUELS CONFLICT, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD TODAY AS IT CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE GA/L/3321 HELP FOR ‘THIRD STATES’ IN APPLICATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS NO LONGER MAJOR CONCERN, ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD GA/SHC/3887 RURAL WOMEN FACE PROBLEMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND MANIFOLD DISADVANTAGES 15 October, 2007 GA/10636 PRESIDENTS OF TRIBUNALS FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, RWANDA ADDRESS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ASK FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT AS COMPLETION DATES APPROACH GA/AB/3813 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP PATTERN OF CONFERENCES GA/DIS/3344 REVIVAL OF COMMITMENT TO COLLECTIVE SECURITY, BASED ON EQUITY, BALANCE, RESTRAINT, COOPERATION AMONG STATES, CALLED FOR IN FIRST COMMITTEE AS DEBATE CONTINUES GA/EF/3181 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES NEED BOLDER, MORE INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO HELP THEM OUT OF EXTERNAL DEBT TRAP, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD GA/L/3320 GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION SEEN AS FIRST STEP ON PROBLEM OF CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT BY PERSONNEL ON UNITED NATIONS MISSIONS GA/SHC/3886 PAST YEAR HIGHLIGHTED AS POSITIVE FOR WOMEN, GENDER EQUALITY GA/SPD/375 FOURTH COMMITTEE, CONCLUDING ITS GENERAL DEBATE ON DECOLONIZATION, RECOMMENDS NINE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS FOR ADOPTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY, INCLUDING ON WESTERN SAHARA 11 October, 2007 GA/DIS/3343 CONTOURS OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY, CONSTRUCTED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OUT OF COLD WAR DEBRIS, REMAIN UNDEFINED, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE WARNED GA/L/3319 UNITED STATES TELLS ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORTS MUST STRESS PREVENTION OF GLOBAL EXPANSION, ADDRESS LEGITIMATE GRIEVANCES GA/SHC/3885 SOCIAL COMMITTEE WRAPS UP DEBATE ON CRIME PREVENTION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND DRUG CONTROL THIS AFTERNOON GA/SPD/374 FOURTH COMMITTEE URGES DECOLONIZATION PROGRESS FOR 16 REMAINING NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES, HEARS ADDITIONAL PETITIONERS ON WESTERN SAHARA DISPUTE 10 October, 2007 GA/10635 GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES REFORM ON PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION’S FIRST YEAR; SPEAKERS CITE PROMISING START, CALL FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT ON THE GROUND GA/AB/3812 INTERNAL CONTROL FRAMEWORK DEFICIENCIES RAISE RISK OF UN MISMANAGEMENT, FRAUD, SAY SPEAKERS, AS BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORTS OF OVERSIGHT BODIES GA/DIS/3342 IMPLEMENTATION OF UNILATERAL PLANS TO BUILD GLOBAL MISSILE DEFENCE WHILE IGNORING SECURITY INTERESTS OF OTHERS WOULD UPSET BALANCE OF FORCES, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3180 MEMBERS OF SECOND COMMITTEE CALL FOR URGENT ATTENTION TO GLOBAL WARMING, ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE AS GENERAL DEBATE CONCLUDES GA/L/3318 ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD RECENT CONTACTS MAY HELP EARLY COMPLETION OF TEXT AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM GA/SHC/3884 ASSEMBLY’S SOCIAL COMMITTEE WARNED NOT TO MAKE MISTAKE OF APPROACHING DRUG CONTROL, CRIME DETERRENCE, PREVENTION OF TERRORISM AS SEPARATE ISSUES GA/SPD/373 MAINTAINING FOCUS ON WESTERN SAHARA, FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS 23 MORE PETITIONERS 9 October, 2007 GA/10634 STRENGTHENED UNITED NATIONS NEEDED TO FACE EVER MORE PRESSING GLOBAL CHALLENGES, SAY SPEAKERS AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES DEBATE ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT GA/AB/3811 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF JOINT INSPECTION UNIT GA/DIS/3341 DENUCLEARIZATION OF KOREAN PENINSULA WELCOME, BUT RACE TO POSSESS NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NOW JOINED BY TERRORISTS, CONTINUES UNABATED, DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE TOLD GA/EF/3179 SPEAKERS FOCUS ON NEED FOR DEBT CANCELLATION, REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE, AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE GA/SHC/3883 PROBLEMS OF YOUNGER GENERATION HIGHLIGHTED AS ASSEMBLY’S SOCIAL COMMITTEE CONTINUES REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES GA/SPD/372 FOURTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DECOLONIZATION DEBATE, HEARING PETITIONERS FROM GUAM, WESTERN SAHARA 8 October, 2007 DSG/SM/342-GA/EF/3178 ‘NO NOBLER GOALS’ THAN FREEING HUMANITY FROM POVERTY, HUNGER, DISEASE, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TO SECOND COMMITTEE GA/10633 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING; PRESIDENT SAYS, ‘THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT UNITES US THAN DIVIDES US’ GA/AB/3810 BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE REPORT ON SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS GA/DIS/3340 ‘IT IS A HARSH REALITY THAT OVER HALF OF HUMANITY LIVES IN COUNTRIES THAT POSSESS NUCLEAR WEAPONS,’ HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISARMAMENT TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE GA/EF/3177 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING SECOND COMMITTEE, POINTS OUT EVIDENCE OF ‘IMPLEMENTATION GAP’ ON PATH TOWARDS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS GA/L/3317 ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE ADOPTS WORK PROGRAMME, BEGINS DEBATE ON ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE WITHIN UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM GA/SHC/3882 REJECTING HIGH COMMISSIONER’S RECOMMENDATION, SOCIAL COMMITTEE DECLINES TO TAKE UP HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS ON NEPAL, NORTHERN UGANDA GA/SPD/371 MOST OF WORLD’S POPULATION NO LONGER LIVES UNDER COLONIAL RULE, BUT UNITED NATIONS DECOLONIZATION MISSION STILL UNFULFILLED, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD AS DEBATE BEGINS 5 October, 2007 GA/10632 GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEARS 52 ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS DURING HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON INTERRELIGIOUS, INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, COOPERATION FOR PEACE GA/AB/3809 DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES BROAD EFFORT TO FURTHER IMPROVE UNITED NATIONS EFFECTIVENESS, EFFICIENCY AS BUDGET COMMITTEE HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION 4 October, 2007 GA/10630 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON INTERRELIGIOUS, INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, COOPERATION FOR PEACE GA/DIS/3339 DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING; GENERAL DEBATE WILL BEGIN 8 OCTOBER GA/PAL/1065 SITUATION IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY NO BETTER DESPITE RECENT DIPLOMATIC MOVES, COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS TOLD GA/SPD/370 FOURTH COMMITTEE, APPROVING WORK PROGRAMME, WILL CONSIDER QUESTION OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE, DECOLONIZATION, AMONG TOPICS SG/SM/11205-GA/10631 SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PROMOTION OF DIVERSITY AS VIRTUE, NOT THREAT, IN REMARKS TO HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON INTERRELIGIOUS, INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 3 October, 2007 GA/10628 NO ONE MORE DETERMINED TO STOP DARFUR BLOODSHED THAN SUDAN’S GOVERNMENT, FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONCLUDES GA/SM/384-GA/10629 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, CLOSING DEBATE, NOTES ‘IMPORTANT SHIFT’ AS HE CONFIRMS CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BECOME FLAGSHIP ISSUE OF SIXTY-SECOND SESSION 2 October, 2007 GA/10627 NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES, NON-PROLIFERATION, ‘CREDIBLE DETERRENCE’, CONFLICTS IN HORN OF AFRICA AMONG TOPICS AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE NEARS CONCLUSION 1 October, 2007 GA/10626 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD OFFER SUPPORT, NOT CONDITIONS IN ‘RISKY’ QUEST FOR PEACE, ISRAELI MINISTER TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 28 September, 2007 GA/10625 MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PUSH PEOPLE TOWARDS DESPAIR, MAKE THEM EASY PREY FOR EXTREMISTS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD GA/10625 MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PUSH PEOPLE TOWARDS DESPAIR, MAKE THEM EASY PREY FOR EXTREMISTS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD 27 September, 2007 GA/10624 SMALL ISLAND STATES, LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES SEEK URGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HELP THEM COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS 26 September, 2007 GA/10623 WORLD LEADERS STRIVING TO REBUILD WAR-TORN NATIONS CHAMPION GAINS, SEEK BROAD GLOBAL SUPPORT, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WRAPS UP SECOND DAY OF GENERAL DEBATE 25 September, 2007 GA/10621 ‘OUR CHANGING WORLD NEEDS A STRONGER UN,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS GENERAL DEBATE SG/SM/11182-GA/10622 SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ADDRESS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, LAYS OUT VISION OF STRONGER, MORE FLEXIBLE, EFFICIENT, ACCOUNTABLE UNITED NATIONS 24 September, 2007 GA/10618 ACTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DEFINE GLOBAL LEGACY LEFT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS HIGH-LEVEL EVENT CONVENES 21 September, 2007 GA/10617 GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS WORK PROGRAMME FOR SIXTY-SECOND SESSION, REJECTS BID TO INCLUDE AGENDA ITEM ON TAIWAN 20 September, 2007 GA/EF/3176 SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES PROGRAMME OF WORK FEATURING FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, DISASTER REDUCTION, POVERTY ERADICATION GA/PAL/1064 BUREAU OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ISSUES STATEMENT ON ISRAEL’S DECISION TO DECLARE GAZA STRIP ‘HOSTILE TERRITORY’ 18 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