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GA/SPD/138

FOURTH COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION

14 October 1998


Press Release
GA/SPD/138


FOURTH COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION

19981014

Sixty-seven nuclear-weapon tests were carried out in the Marshall Islands over 12 years without the population knowing the true extent of personal injuries and environmental damage caused by the nuclear blasts, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) was told this afternoon as it began its consideration of the effects of atomic radiation.

GA/SPD/135/

MAJORITY OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE LIST, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

13 October 1998


Press Release
GA/SPD/135/


MAJORITY OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE LIST, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19981013 CORRECTION

On the last paragraph of page 9 of Press Release GA/SPD/135 of 9 October, the country of the representative who made the intervention was inadvertently omitted. It should read as follows: ROKAN HAMA AL-ANBUGE (Iraq).

GA/SPD/136

FOURTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON DECOLONIZATION MATTERS

12 October 1998


Press Release
GA/SPD/136


FOURTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON DECOLONIZATION MATTERS

19981012

The United States delegation should study carefully the draft resolution on Guam and begin the process of consultation with the people of that Territory, the representative of Papua New Guinea said this afternoon as the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) concluded its discussion of decolonization matters.