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GA/SPD/172

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GA/SHC/3545

EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS ARE URGED BY SOCIAL COMMITTEE

Approved Text Also Seeks Strategies to That End, Based on National Experience; Debate Continues on Prospective Death Penalty Moratorium

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GA/SHC/3544

PROPOSED DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM CHALLENGED IN SOCIAL COMMITTEE; SOVEREIGNTY OF STATES IS INVOKED

In Other Action, Delegates Seek Designation of 25 November As International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women

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GA/L/3128

DIRECTION OF LAW COMMISSION’S WORK ON TRANSBOUNDARY DAMAGE DEFEATED IN SIXTH COMMITTEE

The Sixth Committee this afternoon took up the remaining chapters of the report of the International Law Commission -– those dealing with unilateral acts and prevention of transboundary damage.

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GA/EF/2887

AFRICAN HOPES OF REVERSING MARGINALIZATION DEPENDENT ON RECOVERY, GROWTH OF MANUFACTURING, COMMITTEE HEARS

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GA/AB/3331

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED PROGRAMME BUDGET

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon continued its part by part discussion of the proposed 2000-2001 programme budget, starting with budget section 3 on political affairs.

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GA/AB/3330

NEED FOR ADEQUATE RESOURCES FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AFFAIRS AND CONFERENCE SERVICES STRESSED IN FIFTH COMMITTEE

Committee Begins Part by Part Consideration of Proposed 2000-2001 Programme Budget

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GA/9649

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, VOTING CONCURRENTLY WITH SECURITY COUNCIL, FILLS FIVE VACANCIES ON INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Election Requires Two Ballots; Re-elects Judges from France United Kingdom, Venezuela, Madagascar; New Judge from Jordan

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DEV/2222
GA/9648

THIRTY-SIX STATES PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES, AS EUROPEAN, OTHER DELEGATIONS CALL CONFERENCE ANACHRONISM

Doubts Symptomatic of `Wider Malaise’, Says UNDP Head

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SG/SM/7205

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN STATEMENT TO OSLO CEREMONY FOR YITZAK RABIN, SAYS RABIN LED HIS PEOPLE IN TRUEST, MOST NOBLE SENSE OF WORD

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Terje Roed-Larsen, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, to the Commemoration Ceremony for the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzak Rabin, in Oslo, Norway on 2 November.