General Assembly: Press Release

29 June 1999

Press Release
GA/9568
POP/731

THREE-DAY SPECIAL SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO REVIEW IMPLEMENTATION OF CAIRO PROGRAMME OF ACTION BEGINS TOMORROW AT HEADQUARTERS

19990629 Background Release Text on Key Actions for Further Implementing Cairo Programme of Action, to be Submitted to Assembly Session, Still Under Negotiation

28 June 1999

Press Release
GA/COL/3012

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF SMALL ISLAND NON-SELF GOVERNING TERRITORIES

19990628 Representative of U.S. Virgin Islands Says Recommendations to Further Decolonization Remain Unimplemented in Decade Dedicated to its Eradication

28 June 1999

Press Release
GA/9567
REC/63

28 June 1999

Press Release
GA/9566
REC/62

25 June 1999

Press Release
GA/AB/3301

25 June 1999

Press Release
GA/9565
REC/61

25 June 1999

Press Release
GA/9564
REC/60

24 June 1999

Press Release
GA/COL/3011

24 June 1999

Press Release
GA/9563
REC/59

UN FALLS SHORT ON MEETING PEACE AND POVERTY CHALLENGES IN AFRICA, AFRICAN HEARING FOR MILLENNIUM ASSEMBLY TOLD

19990624

ADDIS ABABA, 24 June (ECA) -- While the United Nations has made a substantial difference in delivering its mandate over its five decades of existence, it has fallen far short of meeting the twin challenges of peace and security and reducing poverty in Africa.

23 June 1999

Press Release
GA/COL/3010

SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE CONTINUES TO HEAR SPEAKERS ON EAST TIMOR

19990623

The flexibility and innovation of the Indonesian Government and its leading role in finding a settlement was the spark that had made negotiations possible, a petitioner said this afternoon in the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.