General Assembly: Press Release

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3473

RECOGNITION OF RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS WAR CRIMES HAS BEGUN TO REVERSE CLIMATE OF IMPUNITY, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19981014 Committee Takes Up Advancement of Women And Implementation of Fourth World Conference on Women

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2824

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3110

'MUSHROOM CLOUDS IN SOUTH ASIA' MUST SHARPEN WORLD'S FOCUS ON NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION DANGERS, UNITED STATES TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

19981014 India Cites Failures of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation Regime; Nine Others Address Committee in Continuing Disarmament General Debate

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3244

PRIORITIES IN SECRETARY-GENERAL'S BUDGET OUTLINE SHOULD CONFORM WITH THOSE IN MEDIUM-TERM PLAN, FIFTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19981014 Committee Continues Discussing Programme Planning, Considers Bosnia and Herzegovina Request for Exemption From Article 19

14 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9479

ASSEMBLY URGES STATES TO REPEAL OR INVALIDATE LAWS WITH EXTRATERRITORIAL EFFECT ON SOVEREIGNTY, FREE TRADE, NAVIGATION OF OTHER STATES

19981014 Adopts Resolution on Need to End United States Embargo on Cuba, Voting 157 in Favour, 2 Against (Israel, United States), with 12 Abstentions

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/137

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/135/

MAJORITY OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE LIST, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19981013 CORRECTION

On the last paragraph of page 9 of Press Release GA/SPD/135 of 9 October, the country of the representative who made the intervention was inadvertently omitted. It should read as follows: ROKAN HAMA AL-ANBUGE (Iraq).

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3472

VULNERABILITY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO ILLICIT DRUG TRADE HIGHLIGHTED IN THIRD COMMITTEE DEBATE

19981013 Committee Concludes Discussion of Crime Prevention, Drug Control; Speakers Emphasize Difficulties of Combatting Global Crime with Few Resources

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3471

POVERTY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMBALANCES MUST BE ADDRESSED IN FIGHT AGAINST ILLICIT DRUGS, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19981013 Committee Hears Call for Additional Resources for UNDCP

13 October 1998

Press Release
GA/L/3072

SIXTH COMMITTEE (LEGAL) CONCLUDES TWO-DAY DISCUSSION OF UNCITRAL REPORT

19981013

The Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon concluded its two-day consideration of the 1998 session of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), hearing an urgent appeal from the Commission's Chairman for more resources to meet growing demands for its training and technical assistance programmes.