General Assembly: Press Release

Press Release
GA/AB/3348

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING OF UNITED NATIONS INTERIM ADMINISTRATION IN KOSOVO

Press Release
GA/9677

ASSEMBLY URGES ENRICHMENT OF UNITED NATIONS ‘INTERNET’ PRESENCE, FULL USE OF EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Texts from Fourth Committee Also Adopted on Issues of Outer Space, Declaration on Decolonization, Situation of Palestine Refugees

Press Release
GA/9676

ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR AGREEMENT ON RELATIONSHIP WITH CTBT PREPARATORY COMMISSION ALSO MANDATES APPOINTMENT OF MULTILINGUALISM COORDINATOR FOR SECRETARIAT

The General Assembly this morning called for an agreement to be drafted to regulate the relationship between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the organization that will eventually monitor the implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Press Release
GA/EF/2902

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX DRAFT TEXTS ON DEVELOPMENT

Issues Include Environment and Sustainable Development, Habitat II, Sustainable Development and International Economic Cooperation

Press Release
GA/AB/3347

INDISPENSABLE THAT GUATEMALA VERIFICATION MISSION BE PROVIDED WITH NECESSARY RESOURCES, FIFTH COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Takes up Budget Implications of Texts on MINUGUA, International Law Commission, Central America and Small Arms

Press Release
GA/9670/

GENERAL ASSEMBLY INVITES SUPPORT FOR YEAR 2000 BENIN CONFERENCE OF NEW AND RESTORED DEMOCRACIES

CORRECTION

On page three of Press Release GA/9670 issued 29 November, the summary of document A/54/L.46, which contains amendments to the draft resolution on the Code of Democratic Conduct, was inadvertently abbreviated. The summary should read as follows:

Press Release
GA/EF/2901

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE TEXTS ON ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The General Assembly would call on the Caribbean countries to develop further an integrated management approach to the Caribbean Sea area in the context of sustainable development, as proposed by one of three texts approved this afternoon by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

Press Release
GA/EF/2900

WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT, SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, AMONG 14 TEXTS APPROVED BY SECOND COMMITTEE

The General Assembly would call on the United Nations system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its programmes and policies, as proposed by one of 14 texts approved this morning by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

Press Release
GA/9675

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH 1972 ABM TREATY, AS IT ADOPTS 51 DISARMAMENT, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY TEXTS

Press Release
GA/9674

ASSEMBLY URGES PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF PALESTINE QUESTION DECLARES ISRAEL’S JURISDICTION OVER JERUSALEM VOID

Adopts Six Texts; Concludes Discussion of Middle East, Palestine

The General Assembly this morning reaffirmed the necessity of achieving a peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, which it identified once more as the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict.