General Assembly: No name

15 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9480

ASSEMBLY GRANTS OBSERVER STATUS TO ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN STATES AND ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

19981015 Begins Consideration of World Solar Programme 1996-2005, Encourages Use of Renewable Energy Sources, Supports Sustainable Development

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.

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3473

RECOGNITION OF RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS WAR CRIMES HAS BEGUN TO REVERSE CLIMATE OF IMPUNITY, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19981014 Committee Takes Up Advancement of Women And Implementation of Fourth World Conference on Women

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2824

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3110

'MUSHROOM CLOUDS IN SOUTH ASIA' MUST SHARPEN WORLD'S FOCUS ON NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION DANGERS, UNITED STATES TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

19981014 India Cites Failures of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation Regime; Nine Others Address Committee in Continuing Disarmament General Debate

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3244

PRIORITIES IN SECRETARY-GENERAL'S BUDGET OUTLINE SHOULD CONFORM WITH THOSE IN MEDIUM-TERM PLAN, FIFTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19981014 Committee Continues Discussing Programme Planning, Considers Bosnia and Herzegovina Request for Exemption From Article 19

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9479

ASSEMBLY URGES STATES TO REPEAL OR INVALIDATE LAWS WITH EXTRATERRITORIAL EFFECT ON SOVEREIGNTY, FREE TRADE, NAVIGATION OF OTHER STATES

19981014 Adopts Resolution on Need to End United States Embargo on Cuba, Voting 157 in Favour, 2 Against (Israel, United States), with 12 Abstentions

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/137

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).

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3472

VULNERABILITY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO ILLICIT DRUG TRADE HIGHLIGHTED IN THIRD COMMITTEE DEBATE

19981013 Committee Concludes Discussion of Crime Prevention, Drug Control; Speakers Emphasize Difficulties of Combatting Global Crime with Few Resources