General Assembly: Press Release

6 October 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2815

SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS DIFFERING VIEWS ON NEED FOR NEW `ARCHITECTURE' FOR GLOBAL FINANCIAL QUESTIONS

19981006 Globalization and Current Financial Crisis Main Topics at Opening of Second Committee General Debate

6 October 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3241

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE UNITED NATIONS' FINANCIAL LIQUIDITY DRYING UP

19981006 Committee Takes Up Organization's Financial Situation, Acts on Scale of Assessments, Continues Discussion of Development Account

6 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9470

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL TURBULENCE MIGHT RESULT IN SOCIAL CRISIS, CHILE TELLS ASSEMBLY REVIEW OF 1995 SOCIAL SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP

19981006 Enthusiasm Expressed at World Social Summit in Copenhagen Led Only to Superficial Improvements in Human Condition, Indonesia Says

6 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9467

GENERAL ASSEMBLY HONOURS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WHO SERVED CAUSE OF PEACE, ADOPTING DECLARATION ON FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF UN PEACEKEEPING

19981006 Addressing Special Commemorative Meeting, President of Botswana Says Framers of Charter Entrenched Imperfections Limiting Peacekeeping Ability

5 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/133

NO TERRITORIES ADMINISTERED BY UNITED KINGDOM REMAINED BRITISH THROUGH COERCION OR REPRESSION, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19981005 Administering Powers Urged To Promote Territories' Economic Development as Fourth Committee Takes Up Decolonization Issues

5 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3464

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IS NOT CHARITY, BUT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT, USG FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

19981005 Debate on Questions Relating To Youth, Ageing, Disabled Persons, Family Begins

5 October 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3240

MEMBER STATES WILL DECIDE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT, USG FOR MANAGEMENT TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE

19981005 Administrative and Budgetary Committee Adopts Programme of Work, Takes Up Support Account and Gratis Personnel

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this morning adopted its programme of work and began substantive work for the General Assembly's fifty-third session.

5 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9466

RAPID RESPONSE TO CRISES, PEACEKEEPING READINESS AMONG SUBJECTS ADDRESSED AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES DISCUSSION OF SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPORT

19981005 Pakistan Says UN Readiness Brigade Not Mandated by Organization; Assembly Adopts Resolution on Assistance to Relieve Effects of Hurricane

5 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9465

LIVING WITHIN RESOURCES, USING THEM WHERE MOST NEEDED KEY TO UN SUCCESS, UNITED STATES TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19981005 Sixteen Speakers Address Assembly, As It Takes Up Secretary-General's Report on Organization

2 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9464

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES TWO-WEEK GENERAL DEBATE, WITH FOCUS ON GLOBALIZATION, FINANCIAL CRISIS

19981002 `Unique Opportunity' to View World Problems Says Assembly President, Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, Haiti, Angola, Georgia, Uzbekistan Address Assembly