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GA/COL/3024

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES GUIDELINES FOR PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR

24 March 2000


Press Release
GA/COL/3024


SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION APPROVES GUIDELINES FOR PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR

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The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples this afternoon approved the draft guidelines and rules of procedure for this year’s Pacific Regional Seminar (contained in provisional document A/AC.109/2000/1).

DCF/393

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES FIRST PART OF YEAR 2000 SESSION; SPEAKERS DECRY CONTINUING STALEMATE ON STARTING SUBSTANTIVE WORK

24 March 2000


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DCF/393


CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES FIRST PART OF YEAR 2000 SESSION; SPEAKERS DECRY CONTINUING STALEMATE ON STARTING SUBSTANTIVE WORK

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GENEVA, 23 March (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament completed this morning the first part of its 2000 session with Member States expressing concern about the forum's continued inability to reach agreement on a work programme.

SG/SM/7337

SECRETARY-GENERAL"S STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL ON ROLE OF UN PEACEKEEPING IN DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION

23 March 2000


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SG/SM/7337
SC/6831


SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL ON ROLE OF UN PEACEKEEPING IN DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the Security Council as it met today at Headquarters to consider the role of United Nations Peacekeeping in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration:

ORG/1299

UNITED NATIONS NOMINATED FOR COMPUTERWORLD SMITHSONIAN AWARD

23 March 2000


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ORG/1299
PI/1230


UNITED NATIONS NOMINATED FOR COMPUTERWORLD SMITHSONIAN AWARD

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The United Nations Integrated Management Information Systems (IMIS) will become part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian’s Nations Museum of American History on Monday, 3 April, when the 2000 Information Technology Innovation Collection is formally presented to the Institution.

HR/CT/556

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF MONGOLIA"S REPORT

23 March 2000


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HR/CT/556


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF MONGOLIA’S REPORT

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As Mongolia continued to answer specific questions on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights this morning, members of the Human Rights Committee once again underscored the brevity of responses and the lack of detailed examples provided by the delegation.

GA/PAL/826

COMMITTEE ON EXERCISE OF INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HEARS REPORT ON UN ASIAN MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

23 March 2000


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GA/PAL/826


COMMITTEE ON EXERCISE OF INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HEARS REPORT ON UN ASIAN MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

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The Pope's historic visit to Palestine was the most important recent development on the situation in the Middle East, Nasser Al-Kidwa, the Permanent Observer for Palestine, told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People this morning.