BUDGET COMMITTEE APPROVES $2.8 BILLION FOR 2004-2005 PEACEKEEPING, AS IT CONCLUDES SECOND RESUMED SESSION

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

Fifth Committee                                            

51^st Meeting (AM)

budget committee approves $2.8 billion for 2004-2005 peacekeeping,

as it concludes second resumed session

correction

On page 22 of Press Release GA/AB/3624 issued 3 June, the sixth full paragraph should read as follows:

The representative of Lebanon drew attention to a Security Council resolution from 1996, which he said clearly showed that it was unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of any “errors”.

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