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GA/EF/2873
RULES OF DEVELOPMENT GAME LOADED AGAINST POOR COUNTRIES, SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE
19991020Speakers Stress Crucial Role of External Support, Weight Pros and Cons of Conference on International Migration
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GA/DIS/3149
DESPITE TEST-BAN REJECTION, COMMITMENT TO ARMS CONTROL 'UNWAVERING', UNITED STATES TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONCLUDES
19991020Canada Says Test-Ban Failure Would Be 'Serious Blow' to Disarmament; Outer Space Arms Race, ABM Treaty, Security Doctrines Also Addressed
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GA/AB/3317
GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD RECOGNIZE IMPROVEMENTS IN UN PROCUREMENT MADE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCORDING TO TEXT APPROVED BY FIFTH COMMITTEE
19991020Committee Concludes Discussion of Scale of Assessments, Pattern Of Conferences and JIU; Fails To Approve Text on Development Account
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GA/9638
SECURITY COUNCIL CRITICIZED FOR SECRECY, SLOW RESPONSE IN AFRICA AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF COUNCILS REPORT
19991020While the Security Council's own rules required it to meet in public, the option to meet privately had become the rule rather than the exception, the representative of Mexico told the General Assembly this afternoon, as it continued its consideration of the Council's annual report.
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GA/9637
SECURITY COUNCIL WORKING METHODS CALLED SECRETIVE, RIGID, EXCLUSIONARY, AS ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS ANNUAL COUNCIL REPORT
19991020Regional Military Intervention in Kosovo Post-Second World War Europes Biggest Humanitarian Disaster, Says China
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DEV/2220
PI/1189
1999 WORLD SURVEY ON THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT: GLOBALIZATION, GENDER AND WORK PUBLISHED
19991020 ADVANCE TEXTNew UN Study Cites Gender as Indispensable Factor in Economic Policy Design and Implementation
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TAD/1897
UNCTAD TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD OPENS ANNUAL SESSION
19991019UNCTAD Secretary-General Addresses Annual Board Session
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SG/SM/7188
SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES INDONESIAN ASSEMBLYS VOIDING OF DECREE INTEGRATING EAST TIMOR INTO INDONESIA
19991019The following statement is attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
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SG/SM/7187
WAR FOE OF DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPMENT BEST FORM OF CONFLICT-PREVENTION SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS WORLD BANK STAFF
19991019This is the text of the Secretary-General's address to World Bank staff in Washington, D.C., today:
It is a great honour to be invited to give the first in your new programme of United Nations Lectures.