Plenary

Press Release
GA/9661
REF/1164

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY PLEDGES $195 MILLION FOR UNHCR 2000 NEEDS, PROJECTED AT $933 MILLION

Assembly President Says Developing Countries, Hosts to Large Refugee Communities, Pay Heavy, Unacknowledged Price

Some $195 million was pledged to support the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) this morning, at the UNHCR annual pledging conference.

Press Release
GA/9660

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE; HEARS INTRODUCTION OF TEXTS RELATED TO SITUATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Press Release
GA/9659

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TEXTS ON UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, CENTENNIAL OF 1899 INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE

Press Release
GA/9658

GENERAL ASSEMBLY REVIEWS ACHIEVEMENTS OF DECADE ON INTERNATIONAL LAW; SPEAKERS URGE CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO DECADE’S OBJECTIVES

Press Release
GA/9657

ASSEMBLY, URGING GLOBAL COOPERATION WITH ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, EXPRESSES CONCERN AT NON-COMPLIANCE BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

IAEA Report Approved; In other Action, United Nations Support Is Sought for Work of International Organization of la Francophonie

Press Release
GA/9656

GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS OF CHILD

Press Release
GA/9655

ASSEMBLY HAILS THREE-MONTH BETHLEHEM COMMEMORATION AS SYMBOL OF PEACE; SPEAKERS CITE BENEFITS OF PROMOTING TOURISM, UPGRADING INFRASTRUCTURE

Also Approves Recommendations For Follow-up to Social Development, Strategies on Ageing

Press Release
GA/9654

AS ASSEMBLY REITERATES CALL FOR END TO `EXTRATERRITORIAL MEASURES’, CUBA ANNOUNCES $100 BILLION DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST UNITED STATES

Cuba Equates Blockade's Effects with Genocide; United States Calls It Matter of Bilateral Trade Policy

Press Release
GA/9652

ASSEMBLY APPRAISES PROGRESS MADE BY WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS; JUDGES DESCRIBE OBSTACLES

Speakers Generally Praise Historic Achievements, Rwanda Dissatisfied with Pace of Proceedings; Croatia Charges Lack of Balance

Press Release
GA/9651/

SWIFT CONCLUSION OF SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENTS WITH ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY URGED ON ALL SIGNATORIES TO NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

CORRECTION

On page 4 of Press Release GA/9561 issued 4 November, the speaker from Armenia should read:

ANNA AGHAJANIAN (Armenia)