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POP/796
03/04/2001
Press Release
POP/796


Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-fourth Session

4th Meeting (PM)


COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT EXAMINES LINKS

BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND POPULATION ISSUES


The links between population, environment and development were examined this afternoon during a panel discussion held by the Commission on Population and Development, as it continued its thirty-fourth session. 

SG/SM/7761
02/04/2001
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SG/SM/7761


SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA


FOR ARREST OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC


Following is a statement by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued today in Nairobi, Kenya:


The arrest of Slobodan Milosevic is an important step in the process of healing after the tragic events in the Balkans since 1991.  I commend the authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for this decisive action.