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SG/SM/7197
27 October 1999


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SG/SM/7197
GA/AB/3323


SECRETARY-GENERAL PROPOSES $2,535 MILLION PROGRAMME BUDGET FOR 2000-2001 BIENNIUM

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address today to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) introducing the proposed United Nations programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001:

SG/SM/7196
27 October 1999


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SG/SM/7196
POP/743


ON POPULATION FUND ANNIVERSARY, KOFI ANNAN SAYS WORK WILL CONTINUE ON ISSUE WITH ‘INDIVIDUAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL REPERCUSSIONS’

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Following are the remarks to the General Assembly of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which were delivered today on his behalf by UNFPA Executive Director Nafis Sadik:

IHA/687
27 October 1999


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IHA/687


UNITED NATIONS APPEALS FOR $199 MILLION TO MEET URGENT NEEDS STEMMING FROM CRISIS IN EAST TIMOR

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GENEVA/NEW YORK, 27 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -– The United Nations today launched the Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for the East Timor Crisis, requesting $199 million to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of affected populations through June 2000.

GA/SM/117
27 October 1999


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GA/SM/117


GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT PAYS TRIBUTE TO ASSASSINATED ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER, APPEALS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HOSTAGES

19991027

Following is the statement delivered today by the President of the General Assembly, Theo Ben-Gurirab (Namibia) in tribute to the memory of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Vazgen Sargissian, who was assassinated today, 27 October:

GA/SM/116
27 October 1999


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GA/SM/116
POP/744


GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT PRAISES UN POPULATION FUND’S LEADERSHIP AT ASSEMBLY OBSERVANCE OF FUND’S THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY

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Following is the statement of the President of the General Assembly, Theo Ben-Gurirab (Namibia), to the Assembly’s commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in New York on 27 October: