General Assembly

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GA/9624

ELDERLY SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS DEPRECIATING ASSET, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

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GA/9622

IN FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF OLDER PERSONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES PROBLEMS AND PROMISE OF AGEING POPULATIONS

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GA/9621

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE; TOTAL OF 180 SPEAKERS HEARD

Afghanistan Calls for Sanctions against Pakistan; Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi Urge One Another to End Interference

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GA/9620

VOTING PRACTICE, NOT `SHOP-WORN ISSUE OF NON-PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP’ KEY IN SECURITY COUNCIL, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

Stressing that United Nations reform should focus on the Security Council, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Foreign Minister of Estonia, told the General Assembly that the key issue in that body was voting practice, not the shop-worn issue of non-permanent membership.

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GA/9619

BOTSWANA SALUTES AFRICAN RESOLVE AGAINST UNDEMOCRATIC TAKEOVERS, CALLS FOR ISOLATION OF UNITA

Tadjikistan Proposes Global Observance to Combat Water Pollution

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GA/9618

SPEAKERS ADDRESS QUESTION OF SANCTIONS IN ASSEMBLY'S GENERAL DEBATE

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GA/9617

SYRIA WARNS AGAINST SENDING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ‘BACK TO SQUARE ONE’; REPUBLIC OF KOREA URGES REUNIFICATION OF KOREAN PENINSULA

Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk Al-Shara, told the General Assembly this morning that the Israeli Foreign Minister had carried the flag of the culture of peace in his statement yesterday, while fully ignoring the fact that the Israeli occupation was the main reason for the absence of peace.

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GA/9614/
ENV/DEV/524/

SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 1994 BARBADOS PROGRAMME OF ACTION CONCLUDES; FINAL DOCUMENTS ADOPTED

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/9614-ENV/DEV/524 issued on 28 September, in the fourth paragraph on page 5, the speaker should read:

` ABDUS SAMAD AZAD, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.

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GA/EF/2857

SECOND COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRMEN AND RAPPORTEUR, ADOPTS PROGRAMME OF WORK

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GA/9616

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE EVEN-HANDED APPROACHES TO CRISES

"Rwanda demonstrates what Kosovo might have become, had we not intervened in 1999 and Kosovo demonstrates what Rwanda might have been, had we intervened in 1994", Bronislaw Geremek, the Foreign Minister of Poland, told the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its general debate.