Plenary

Press Release
GA/9615/

GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES IN ASSEMBLY; EAST TIMOR, MIDDLE EAST PEACE, SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM AMONG TOPICS RAISED

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/9615 of 29 September 1999, the statement by Israel on page 5, which had several paragraphs inadvertently omitted, should read as follows:

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GA/9603/

CONVENTION TO REPATRIATE AFRICA’S ILLEGALLY TRANSFERRED CAPITAL CALLED FOR BY NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESS

CORRECTION

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GA/9628

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS PROTOCOL TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTION PROVIDING RECOURSE TO VICTIMS OF SEX DISCRIMINATION

Calls on States to Accept UN Committee’s Competence to Adjudicate Complaints of Discrimination against Women in Their Jurisdictions

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GA/9627

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS DISCUSSION ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ANNUAL REPORT ON WORK OF ORGANIZAION

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GA/9626

ASSEMBLY LOOKS AT IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT, CONSIDERS PROBLEMS OF ELDERLY POOR

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GA/9625

NINETEEN SPEAKERS ADDRESS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AS TWO-DAY FOLLOW-UP TO 1999 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF OLDER PERSONS CONTINUES

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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.