General Assembly: Press Release

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GA/SHC/3527

THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES UP ISSUES OF DRUG CONTROL, CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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GA/L/3110

US WARNS LEGAL COMMITTEE OF WEAKENED EFFECTIVENESS OF SECURITY COUNCIL IF 'UNWISE' MEASURES ADOPTED TO MITIGATE SANCTIONS’ UNWANTED IMPACTS

Affected States Urge Consultation, Preliminary Assessment and Hardship Exceptions

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GA/EF/2870

WITH WIDENING POOL OF BENEFICIARIES AND STEADILY SHRINKING RESOURCES, UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES SAID TO BE ‘AT A CROSSROADS’

Operational Activities Should be Country-Driven, Representative of China Tells Second Committee in Wide-Ranging Debate

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GA/EF/2869

UNITED NATIONS SEEN AS LESS RESPONSIVE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRY CONCERNS, MORE RESTRICTIVE IN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ORIENTATION

Opening Debate On Operational Activities For Development, Second Committee Speakers Call Decline in Funding Heart of Problem

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GA/DIS/3146

MILITARY POWER NOW USED UNHESITATINGLY AGAINST SMALL, WEAKER COUNTRIES, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

Stresses Need for Each Country to Safeguard Self-Defence; Speakers Also Address Need to Control Traffic in Small Arms

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GA/DIS/3145

INDIA EMPHASIZES COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISARMAMENT DEBATE

Australia Says US Failure to Ratify Test-Ban 'Deeply Disappointing’; Missile Proliferation, Nuclear Doctrines among Other Issues Addressed

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GA/AB/3313

FIFTH COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON JOINT INSPECTION UNIT, UNAVEM III, CONTINGENT-OWNED EQUIPMENT AND BOARD OF AUDITORS RECOMMENDATIONS

Fails To Reach Consensus on Development Account Draft

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GA/SHC/3526

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT ON POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES INVOLVING YOUTH

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GA/L/3109

CANADA SUGGESTS HIATUS FOR CHARTER COMMITTEE AS SIXTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON CHARTER ISSUES, SANCTIONS

Canada proposed this morning to the Sixth Committee (Legal) that the General Assembly should place its Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization “on hiatus”.

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GA/DIS/3144

TEST-BAN REJECTION BY UNITED STATES PROMPTS DISTRESS, ALARM, BOLIVIA TELLS DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE

In Continuing General Debate, Speakers Also Address Missile Defence Systems, Use of Force Disguised as ‘Humanitarian Imperative’