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GA/AB/3123

FIFTH COMMITTEE ALLOCATES $242 MILLION TO PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FOR FIRST HALF OF 1997

6 December 1996


Press Release
GA/AB/3123


FIFTH COMMITTEE ALLOCATES $242 MILLION TO PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FOR FIRST HALF OF 1997

19961206

The General Assembly would appropriate and apportion almost $242 million gross to maintain three peace-keeping missions in the former Yugoslavia for the first half of 1997, if it adopts three draft resolutions approved without a vote this morning by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

GA/9188

AID SOUGHT FOR LEBANON, THREE AFRICAN NATIONS, COUNTRIES HARMED BY COUNCIL SANCTIONS ON FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

5 December 1996


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GA/9188


AID SOUGHT FOR LEBANON, THREE AFRICAN NATIONS, COUNTRIES HARMED BY COUNCIL SANCTIONS ON FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

19961205 Assembly Adopts Five Texts; President, in Statement, Urges Procedures to Allow Current Session to Complete Work on Schedule

Factions in the Liberian conflict and their leaders were urged by the General Assembly this afternoon to cease all hostilities and disarm their combatants according to the agreed timetable.

GA/9186

FAILURE TO ADDRESS SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEEDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES STRENGTHENS ANTI-PEACE FORCES, ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TELLS UNRWA PLEDGING CONFERENCE

5 December 1996


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GA/9186
PAL/1836


FAILURE TO ADDRESS SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEEDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES STRENGTHENS ANTI-PEACE FORCES, ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TELLS UNRWA PLEDGING CONFERENCE

19961205 This is the text of a statement today by the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia), at the pledging conference for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):