General Assembly: Press Release


GA/EF/2956
03/10/2001
Press Release
GA/EF/2956


Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

7th Meeting (AM)


CONCERN VOICED IN SECOND COMMITTEE OVER WIDENING

GLOBAL ECONOMIC DISPARITIES


Never before was the world so collectively rich, so politically democratic, so economically globalized and yet so widely divided between the rich and the poor, Nepal's representative told the Second Committee this morning as it continued its general debate.

GA/EF/2955
02/10/2001
Press Release
GA/EF/2955


Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

6th Meeting (PM)


PERSISTENT ‘GAPS, CONTRADICTIONS’ BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT RHETORIC, REALITY


OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, SECOND COMMITTEE IS TOLD


Resource Mobilization, Private Sector Participation,

Equitable Trade System, Seen as Crucial to Meeting Development Goals

GA/EF/2954
02/10/2001
Press Release
GA/EF/2954


Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

5th Meeting (AM)  


SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE CALL FOR ABOLITION

OF TRADE PROTECTIONISM


The multilateral trading system should be adjusted and reformed in order to be more open, equitable and non-discriminatory, the representative of Slovakia told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning as it continued its general debate.