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SG/SM/8271-GA/10028
17/06/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8271
GA/10028


DIGITAL DIVIDE STILL YAWNS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY SESSION


ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT


Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the General Assembly plenary meeting on information and communication technologies for development, 17 June:

IK/313
17/06/2002
Press Release
IK/313


FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL


TO BE HELD FROM 18 - 20 JUNE 2002


GENEVA, 14 June (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) will hold its forty-fourth session from 18 to 20 June 2002 under the presidency of Ambassador Sverre Bergh Johansen (Norway).

GA/AB/3512
17/06/2002
Press Release
GA/AB/3512


Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

60th Meeting (AM)


FIFTH COMMITTEE, CONCLUDING SECOND RESUMED SESSION, RECOMMENDS

$2.6 BILLION FOR 12 PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS FOR 2002-2003


Committee Favours Concept of Strategic Deployment Stocks Proposed

By Secretary-General to Allow for Rapid Deployment of Peacekeeping Operations

GA/10027
17/06/2002
Press Release
GA/10027


Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

101st & 102nd Meetings (AM & PM)


'DIGITAL DIVIDE' STILL YAWNS AS WIDELY AS EVER, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,


AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS TWO-DAY SESSION ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES


Senegal's President Cites Hopeful Signs of 'Digital Revolution' for Africa;

Speakers Say New Technologies Must Be Used to Reach Millennium Development Goals