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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
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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:

SG/SM/8409-AFR/490
01/10/2002
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SG/SM/8409
AFR/490


SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRIEF AT SENEGAL FERRY DISASTER


This statement was issued on 28 September by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the news that hundreds of people are feared drowned after a Senegalese passenger ferry capsized off the coast of the Gambia in a violent storm.  He expresses his heartfelt condolences to the Government, families and friends of the victims.