Press Release

Press Release
PI/1294

SEBASTIÃO SALGADO’S ‘CHILDREN’ AND ‘MIGRATIONS’ -– NEW PHOTO EXHIBITION AT VISITOR’S LOBBY, 27 SEPTEMBER–30 OCTOBER

Press Release
GA/9778

DEBT FORGIVENESS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STIMULATION IN DEPRESSED AND STAGNANT PARTS OF WORLD, ASSEMBLY TOLD

Assembly Continues General Debate

Press Release
GA/9777

GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEARS NINE SPEAKERS ON GLOBAL, REGIONAL OUTLOOK

Press Release
DCF/404

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES 2000 SESSION

Adopts Annual Report to General Assembly

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 21 September (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded its 2000 session by adopting its annual report to the General Assembly.

Press Release
DCF/403

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ADOPTS ANNUAL REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HOLDS LAST PLENARY OF 2000 SESSION

Representatives of Costa Rica, Russian Federation, Algeria, China, Ecuador and United States Address Conference

(Reissued as received.)

Press Release
SG/SM/7556

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES UNITED STATES MOVE TO ESTABLISH NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS WITH CHINA

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

Press Release
SC/6925

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS SIERRA LEONE MISSION UNTIL 31 DECEMBER, BY UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1321 (2000)

Will Review Situation by 31 October, Including Recommendations for Increase in Troop Strength

The Security Council this morning decided to extend the present mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) until 31 December.

Press Release
GA/EF/2909

SECOND COMMITTEE ELECTS OFFICERS, ADOPTS PROGRAMME OF WORK

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this afternoon elected by acclamation Anne Barrington (Ireland) and Mauricio Escanero (Mexico) as Vice- Chairmen. The Committee also adopted its programme of work, as orally amended, for the fifty-fifth session.

Press Release
GA/9776

EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND COMBAT DRUG-TRAFFICKING DESCRIBED DURING ASSEMBLY DEBATE

The situation in Myanmar had been under unfair scrutiny and the subject of political pressure by a number of powerful countries for quite some time, that country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, U Win Aung, told the fifty-fifth general session of the General Assembly as it met this afternoon to continue its general debate.

Press Release
GA/9775

GLOBALIZATION JUST NEW NAME FOR OLD UNJUST SYSTEM,GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

Calling globalization “the latest buzzword”, Theo-Ben Gurirab, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Namibia told the General Assembly’s general debate this morning that it was merely a new name for an old, cruel and unjust system that had long been willy-nilly imposed upon the peoples of the Third World.