General Assembly

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3060

ASSEMBLY WOULD ENDORSE MODEL LAW ON CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY, UNDER TEXT APPROVED IN SIXTH COMMITTEE

19971113 Committee Also Approves Text on Report of United Nations Trade Law Commission (UNCITRAL), Which Adopted Model Law

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2797

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS LEGITIMATE FOREIGN POLICY INSTRUMENT, UNITED STATES TELLS ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE

19971113 Committee Concludes Consideration of Trade and Development, Natural Disaster Reduction, Desertification, Training and Research

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2796

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/DIS/3099

FIRST COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TEXT CALLING ON MEDITERRANEAN STATES TO ADHERE TO MULTILATERAL DISARMAMENT INSTRUMENTS

19971113 Another Text, Also Approved Without Vote, Concerns Regional Confidence-Building Measures

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/9356

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR NEW MOMENTUM IN STALLED MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, SEEKS END TO ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY

19971113 Majority at Special Session also Support Holding Conference On Applying Geneva Convention Rules in Occupied Territories

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/9355

ISRAELI POLICIES, INCLUDING SETTLEMENTS, SAID TO BE OBSTACLES TO PEACE, AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESUMES EMERGENCY SESSION

19971113 Conference Sought on Applying Geneva Convention Principles; Israel Cites Terrorism, Calls for Direct Negotiations with Palestinians

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SPD/120

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3444

THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS REPORTS ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

19971112 Also Hears of Human Rights Situations In Afghanistan, Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3443

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2795

ERADICATING POVERTY IS ETHICAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE OF HUMANKIND, OBSERVER FOR HOLY SEE TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE

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