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GA/EF/2999
02/10/2002
Press Release
GA/EF/2999


Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

6th Meeting (AM)


NOBEL LAUREATE HIGHLIGHTS TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION


IN BRIEFING TO SECOND COMMITTEE


The past year had shown how the positive and negative sides of globalization could affect the entire world, especially poorer countries, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning.

SG/SM/8411
01/10/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8411


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD IS "FALLING SHORT" IN EFFORTS


TO MEET GOALS OF MILLENIUM DECLARATION


First Progress Report on Implementation of UN Plan

Shows Dramatic "Speed Up" Needed to Meet Targets Set for 2015


These are the opening remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at a Headquarters press conference on the first progress report on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration: