General Assembly

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GA/L/3114

LEGAL COMMITTEE REVIEWS PROGRESS MADE IN SETTING UP WORLD CRIMINAL COURT SPEAKERS URGE AGAINST ALTERING ROME STATUTE IN QUEST FOR UNIVERSALITY

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GA/EF/2873

RULES OF DEVELOPMENT GAME ‘LOADED’ AGAINST POOR COUNTRIES, SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE

Speakers Stress Crucial Role of External Support, Weight Pros and Cons of Conference on International Migration

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GA/DIS/3149

DESPITE TEST-BAN REJECTION, COMMITMENT TO ARMS CONTROL 'UNWAVERING', UNITED STATES TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONCLUDES

Canada Says Test-Ban Failure Would Be 'Serious Blow' to Disarmament; Outer Space Arms Race, ABM Treaty, Security Doctrines Also Addressed

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GA/AB/3317

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD RECOGNIZE IMPROVEMENTS IN UN PROCUREMENT MADE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCORDING TO TEXT APPROVED BY FIFTH COMMITTEE

Committee Concludes Discussion of Scale of Assessments, Pattern Of Conferences and JIU; Fails To Approve Text on Development Account

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GA/9638

SECURITY COUNCIL CRITICIZED FOR SECRECY, SLOW RESPONSE IN AFRICA AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF COUNCIL’S REPORT

While the Security Council's own rules required it to meet in public, the option to meet privately had become the rule rather than the exception, the representative of Mexico told the General Assembly this afternoon, as it continued its consideration of the Council's annual report.

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GA/9637

SECURITY COUNCIL WORKING METHODS CALLED SECRETIVE, RIGID, EXCLUSIONARY, AS ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS ANNUAL COUNCIL REPORT

‘Regional Military Intervention’ in Kosovo Post-Second World War Europe’s Biggest Humanitarian Disaster, Says China

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GA/SPD/165

SAFETY OF PEACEKEEPING AND ASSOCIATED STAFF STRESSED IN FOURTH COMMITTEE’S DEBATE

Double standards were increasingly used in peacekeeping operations, the representative of China told the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) this afternoon as it continued its general debate on the whole question of peacekeeping in all its aspects.

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GA/SHC/3531

TRAFFICKING IN DRUGS, ARMS AND PEOPLE THREATENS FIBRE OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, LIBYA TELLS AFTERNOON MEETING OF THIRD COMMITTEE

Capital Punishment Supported by Other Speakers

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GA/SHC/3530

THIRD COMMITTEE MEMBERS COMENT ON EFFORTS AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME AND ON THE DEATH PENALTY

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GA/L/3113

LEGAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DISCUSSION OF UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

As delegations generally hailed the legislative achievements of the Decade on International Law (1990-1999), several speakers in the Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon stressed the need for the views and concerns of developing nations to be better reflected in future codification efforts.