General Assembly decides to add agenda items on Year of physics, financing

for peacekeeping in burundi, international CIVIL service commission

In a brief meeting this morning, the General Assembly, acting on recommendations of its General Committee, decided to include several items in the agenda for its current session, including the “International Year of Physics, 2005” and the financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi. 

AFRICAN FINANCE MINISTERS SET JULY TARGET FOR TRADE CONCESSIONS

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KAMPALA, 23 May (ECA) -– African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development have ended their annual conference demanding that rich countries remove obstacles holding up international trade negotiations by July.

United Nations Counter-Narcotics Chief Visits Central Asia, Urges Greater

Regional Cooperation against Drugs, Crime and Terrorism

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UNITED NATIONS, LITHUANIA DISCUSS COOPERATION AGAINST DRUGS, CRIME

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SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL DECISION

TO ESTABLISH UN OPERATION IN BURUNDI

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SUDAN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF STEPS

TO FACILITATE HUMANITARIAN ACCESS TO DARFUR REGION

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

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UNITED NATIONS HOLDS WORKSHOP ON BASIC SPACE SCIENCE IN BEIJING

Workshop Participants to Link

To NASA Laboratory in Pasadena on Space Mission Concept

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Committee on NGOs