General Assembly

7 November 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3187

FIFTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CANDIDATES FOR ACABQ; CONTRIBUTIONS, INVESTMENTS COMMITTEES; BOARD OF AUDITORS

19971107 Candidates for Administrative Tribunal, ICSC, Pension Committee Also Recommended

7 November 1997

Press Release
GA/9351
REF/1160

$109 MILLION PLEDGED FOR 1998 PROGRAMMES OF UNHCR

19971107

Some $109 million was pledged this morning at a meeting of the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee for the Announcement of Voluntary Contributions to the 1998 Programmes of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SPD/117

ASSEMBLY WOULD AGREE TO HOLDING OF THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE IN VIENNA, JULY 1999, UNDER FOURTH COMMITTEE TEXT

19971106 Committee Approves Preparations for UNISPACE III: Stresses Problem of Space Debris, Need to Share Benefits of Space

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3438

SECRETARY-GENERAL WOULD BE ASKED TO CONSIDER LAUNCHING DECADE TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY, BY THIRD COMMITTEE TEXT

19971106

The General Assembly would ask the Secretary-General, to consider ways to achieve the goal of education for all, including the feasibility of launching a United Nations decade to eradicate illiteracy, by the terms of a draft resolution approved this afternoon by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3437

GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST INTOLERANCE REMAINS MAJOR CHALLENGE OF PRESENT ERA, ASSEMBLY'S THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19971106 As Wide-Ranging Debate Begins, Speakers Highlight Current Problems, Including Use of Internet for Racist Propaganda

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3056

DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION IS PREROGATIVE OF STATE, NOT RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS, LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD

19971106

Diplomatic protection was not a right of individuals, but a prerogative of a State to its nationals, some representatives said this afternoon as the Sixth Committee (Legal) continued its consideration of the report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-ninth session.

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2787

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY CONVENTION, BARBADOS PROGRAMME OF ACTION

19971106 Several Speakers Stress Need to Implement Commitments of Global Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2786

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMITMENTS MUST BE CONSOLIDATED AND ACTED UPON, NOT CONTINUALLY REDEFINED, MEXICO TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE

19971106 Committee Continues Discussion of UNCED Implementation, Outcome of General Assembly Special Session Review of Agenda 21

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/DIS/3093

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3186

RESOURCES FOR ECA SHOULD REFLECT ITS ROLE IN HELPING AFRICA, FIFTH COMMITTEE IS TOLD AS IT CONTINUES DISCUSSING 1998-1999 BUDGET SECTIONS

19971106 Committee Begins Considering Human Resources Management, Report of Standing Committee of Joint Staff Pension Board