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12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/L/3096

SIXTH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN WELCOMES CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT PREVAILING DURING TWO-DAY DEBATE ON MEANS TO ELIMINATE INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

19981112 Additional Work Urged on Draft Convention to Suppress Nuclear Terrorism, Support Given for Proposal to Elaborate Convention Curbing Terrorist Funding

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/L/3095

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2851

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES SHOULD TAKE ACCOUNT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY, BY TEXT OF ECONOMIC COMMITTEE PROPOSAL FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19981112 Intensified Efforts Sought; Other Drafts Deal With International Years, High-Level Dialogue to Strengthen Cooperation

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3134

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD STRONGLY DEPLORE SOUTH ASIA NUCLEAR TESTS UNDER TERMS OF DRAFT TEXT APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE

19981112 Resolution Approved by Recorded Vote of 98-6-31; Committee Votes to Take No Action on Four Proposed Amendments

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3133

12 November 1998

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GA/AB/3262

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/9501

ASSEMBLY ELECTS 18 NEW MEMBERS TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, IN FOUR ROUNDS OF BALLOTING

19981112 Three-Year Terms To Become Effective 1 January 1999

In four rounds of balloting today, the General Assembly elected 18 members to fill vacancies on the 54-member Economic and Social Council. The newly elected members will begin their three-year terms on 1 January 1999.

11 November 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/149

11 November 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3505

LINK BETWEEN CONFLICT SITUATIONS AND RESULTING POVERTY STRESSED BY WORLD BANK DELEGATE TO ASSEMBLY'S THIRD COMMITTEE

19981111 Ethnic Strife Is Seen as Central Cause of Refugee Problems; Debate Continues on Report of High Commissioner

11 November 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3504

PAST YEAR HAS SEEN NEW PATTERN OF HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHES, MORE LIMITED IN SIZE BUT MORE COMPLEX IN NATURE, SADAKO OGATA TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

19981111 UN High Commissioner for Refugees Notes Growing Gap between Humanitarian and Development Assistance