UNITED
NATIONS
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
News and Highlights from the President
General
Assembly met in the 60th plenary; Sixth Committee met to take up three
items which are the report of the Commission on International Trade Law,
the item on cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and measures
to eliminate international terrorism
21 November 2001
This morning, the General Assembly met in plenary to discuss assistance in mine action, the zone of peace in the South Atlantic and the Year of Cultural Heritage. The Assembly was also expected to re-elected Mr. Klaus Topfer as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. His new four-year term will begin on 1 February 2002.
The Sixth Committee
met this morning to take up the report of the Commission on International
Trade Law, the item on cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union
and measures to eliminate international terrorism. The four-page resolution
“Strongly condemns all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal
and unjustifiable, wherever and by whomsoever committed.” The draft, which
was adopted by consensus at noon, also says that “the Ad Hoc Committee
. . . shall continue to elaborate a comprehensive convention on international
terrorism as a matter of urgency” and calls for the Committee to meet
from 28 January to 1 February 2002.