15 November 2005

• U.N. Correspondent Association's annual dinner will be held on Friday, December 1. Prizes on best (and worse) journalist will be awarded and tongue-in-cheek speeches made by very serious reporters behaving madly.

• Judge Mehlis, who is investigating the terrorist murder of Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, will be testing the extent of collaboration with Syrian authorities following a unanimous Security Council resolution.

• New members of the powerful Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions will play a key role in electing its new Chairman. One of the newly elected members is the experienced Tomo Monte of the Cameroon.