"JOINT INSPECTION UNIT - JIU"

General Assembly adopts four texts, including budget allocations for Human Rights Council activities, flexible workspace, Joint Inspection Unit.

General Assembly, adopting draft welcoming assistance to International Criminal Court, calls for cooperation in arresting fugitives, enforcing sentences.

General Assembly: 31st plenary meeting, 76th session

General Assembly adopts six resolutions, including texts on global economic governance, multilingualism, wildlife protection, eradicating malaria at 97th Plenary meeting.

Calling attention to chronic hunger, General Assembly decides 2016-2025 will Be Decade of Action on Nutrition.

General Assembly Elects Members to Trade Law Commission, Economic and Social Council, Fills Appointments for other Subsidiary Bodies. Seventieth Session, 50th Meeting (AM)

Assembly appropriates $63.6 million for criminal tribunals, $1.44 billion for peace-keeping at 120th meeting.

Assembly considers further support for promotion, consolidation of new, restored democracies, reconstruction aid to Nicaragua at the 55th plenary meeting of the 50th session.

The General Assembly welcomes the appointment ot the High Commissioner for Human Rights. This is followed by other agenda items including budgetary and peacekeeping issues as well as emergency relief assistance to Madagascar.

Michael Littlejohns interviews Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations, and Maurice Bertrand, member of the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU), for World Chronicle program 257.