Mexico Calls for Transfer of Technology To Help Anticipate and Manage Natural Disaster Impact
According to a draft resolution introduced this morning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), the General Assembly would call upon all States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention to accelerate negotiations for a protocol, including possible verification measures, to strengthen the Convention.
Two draft resolutions, on the operation of the Development Account and on the financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), were approved this morning, by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).
As Debate Concludes Speakers Raise Issues of Humanitarian Intervention, Sunset Clauses Peacekeeping
Rome Statute Is Flawed, Says US Representative: Inadequate Jurisdictional Safeguards Place Humanitarian Efforts at Risk
Southern African States Offer to Share Expertise With Respect to Implementing Legislation
He Says Undermined Treaty Would Prompt `Collapse of Arms Control; Draft Text on 1999 Report of Disarmament Commission Also Introduced
