General Assembly

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GA/9719

TWENTY-THIRD SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION CONTINUES REVIEW OF PROGRESS MADE SINCE FOURTH WORLD SUMMIT ON WOMEN

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GA/9718

UNSCEAR FOCUSES ON CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REPORT

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GA/9717

GROWING AWARENESS MOST PRESSING WOMEN’S PROBLEMS LACK SOLUTIONS, CUBA TELLS ‘WOMEN 2000’ GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION

Cites ‘Feminization’ of Poverty, North/South Technological Gap, As 18 More Speakers Address Implementation of 1995 Beijing Action Plan

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GA/9716

PERSISTENCE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SHOULD BE MATTER BOTH OF SHAME AND CONCERN, ‘BEIJING + 5’ SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION TOLD

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GA/9714

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS FIVE-DAY ‘WOMEN 2000’ SPECIAL SESSION, WITH FOCUS ON GENDER EQUALITY, DEVELOPMENT, PEACE

Secretary-General Says ‘Future of This Planet Depends on Women’

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GA/AB/3380

FIFTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ASSEMBLY PROVIDE $1.67 BILLION FOR UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

Concluding Work for Resumed 54th Session, Committee Approves 27 Draft Resolutions and Eight Draft Decisions; UNIFIL Draft Put to Vote

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GA/9713
WOM/1198

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ‘WOMEN 2000’, AT HEADQUARTERS, 5–9 JUNE, TO REVIEW PROGRESS SINCE 1995 BEIJING WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

The General Assembly special session, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century", also known as Beijing + 5, will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 5 to 9 June.

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GA/AB/3378/

FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR MISSIONS IN KOSOVO, EAST TIMOR, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

CORRECTION

On page 6 of Press Release GA/AB/3378 issued 26 May, the third paragraph of the statement of WARREN SACH, Director of the Programme Planning and Budget Division, should read, as follows:

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GA/AB/3379

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS FINANCING FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO MISSION, CONCERNS EXPRESSED ABOUT DELAYS, CONDITIONS ON DEPLOYMENT

Press Release
GA/AB/3378

FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING FOR MISSIONS IN KOSOVO, EAST TIMOR, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO