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General Assembly: Press Release


GA/9667
24 November 1999


Press Release
GA/9667


GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ADDITIONAL AGENDA ITEM CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR BUDDHISTS’ SACRED DAY

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The General Committee this morning recommended that the General Assembly include an item on international recognition of the Day of Vesak –- the day in the year most sacred to Buddhists -- in the agenda of its fifty-fourth session and that the item be considered directly in plenary.