General Assembly

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GA/DIS/3146

MILITARY POWER NOW USED UNHESITATINGLY AGAINST SMALL, WEAKER COUNTRIES, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

Stresses Need for Each Country to Safeguard Self-Defence; Speakers Also Address Need to Control Traffic in Small Arms

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GA/DIS/3145

INDIA EMPHASIZES COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, AS FIRST COMMITTEE CONTINUES DISARMAMENT DEBATE

Australia Says US Failure to Ratify Test-Ban 'Deeply Disappointing’; Missile Proliferation, Nuclear Doctrines among Other Issues Addressed

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GA/AB/3313

FIFTH COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON JOINT INSPECTION UNIT, UNAVEM III, CONTINGENT-OWNED EQUIPMENT AND BOARD OF AUDITORS RECOMMENDATIONS

Fails To Reach Consensus on Development Account Draft

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GA/SHC/3526

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT ON POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES INVOLVING YOUTH

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GA/L/3109

CANADA SUGGESTS HIATUS FOR CHARTER COMMITTEE AS SIXTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON CHARTER ISSUES, SANCTIONS

Canada proposed this morning to the Sixth Committee (Legal) that the General Assembly should place its Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization “on hiatus”.

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GA/DIS/3144

TEST-BAN REJECTION BY UNITED STATES PROMPTS DISTRESS, ALARM, BOLIVIA TELLS DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE

In Continuing General Debate, Speakers Also Address Missile Defence Systems, Use of Force Disguised as ‘Humanitarian Imperative’

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GA/DIS/3143

TWENTIETH CENTURY WARS DASHED HOPES OF MANY FOR GROWTH, PROSPERITY, OBSERVER OF HOLY SEE TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE

Ten More Speakers in Committee’s General Debate Address Issues of Prevention Strategies, Illicit Small Arms Traffic

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GA/SPD/163

AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS PRACTICES IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES ISRAEL STRESSES FRESH COMMITMENT TO PEACE

Syria, Lebanon Charge Ongoing Rights Violations

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GA/SHC/3525

ARMED CONFLICT WORSENS PLIGHT OF WOMEN, SAY THIRD COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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GA/SHC/3524

THIRD COMMITTEE SPEAKERS STRESS POVERTY, PROBLEMS OF RURAL WOMEN

The empowerment of rural women was critical to eradicating poverty, the representative of Malaysia told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this morning, as it met to continue considering issues related to the advancement of women and implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995).