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GA/9730

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION CONTINUES DEBATE ON POVERTY ERADICATION

Speakers Stress Need to Ensure Globalization Benefits All

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GA/9729

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION CONTINUES, AS HEADS OF STATE, HIGH-LEVEL MINISTERS DISCUSS INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Further Efforts Recommended to Spread Benefits of Globalization

Press Release
GA/9723/

SAD AND SOBERING REALITY THAT WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE DEPRIVED OF BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION TOLD

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On page 4 of Press Release GA/9723 issued 8 June, the first paragraph of the statement of Poland should read as follows:

Press Release
GA/9728

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS SPECIAL SESSION ON FOLLOW-UP TO 1995 SOCIAL SUMMIT

Secretary-General Urges Renewed Efforts to Reduce Poverty

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GA/9727
SOC/4550

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION WILL REVIEW IMPLEMENTATION OF 1995 SOCIAL SUMMIT COMMITMENTS IN GENEVA, 26-30 JUNE

A global conference organized to accelerate the momentum towards people- centred development will be held in Geneva from 26 to 30 June.

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GA/9726/

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ACTING ON BUDGET COMMITTEE’S REPORTS, APPROVES SOME $1.67 BILLION IN RESOURCES FOR PEACEKEEPING

Assembly Observes Minute of Silence for President Al-Assad Of Syria; Text on UNIFIL Adopted by Recorded Vote of 110-2-0

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GA/9726

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ACTING ON BUDGET COMMITTEE REPORTS, APPROVES SOME $1.67 BILLION IN RESOURCES FOR UN PEACEKEEPING

Assembly Observes Minute of Silence for President Al-Assad Of Syria; Text on UNIFIL Adopted by Recorded Vote of 110-2-0

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GA/9725

GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO 1995 BEIJING CONFERENCE GOALS, AS ‘WOMEN 2000’ SPECIAL SESSION CONCLUDES AT HEADQUARTERS

Adopts Political Declaration, ‘Further Actions and Initiatives’; Assembly President Notes ‘No Backward Movement’ on Language of Beijing

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GA/9724

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION 'WOMEN 2000' CONTINUES BEIJING DEBATE HEARING 16 SPEAKERS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 1995 BEIJING CONFERENCE

The special session of the General Assembly -- "Women 2000, Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century" -- continued its review of the implementation of the Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) this morning, hearing from 16 speakers.

Press Release
GA/9723

SAD AND SOBERING REALITY THAT WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE DEPRIVED OF BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION TOLD

It was a sad and sobering reality that women continued to be deprived of basic and fundamental rights because of measures imposed in certain countries, the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly was told this afternoon.