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GA/L/3114

LEGAL COMMITTEE REVIEWS PROGRESS MADE IN SETTING UP WORLD CRIMINAL COURT SPEAKERS URGE AGAINST ALTERING ROME STATUTE IN QUEST FOR UNIVERSALITY

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GA/EF/2873

RULES OF DEVELOPMENT GAME ‘LOADED’ AGAINST POOR COUNTRIES, SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE

Speakers 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

Canada 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

Committee 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 COUNCIL’S REPORT

While 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

‘Regional Military Intervention’ in Kosovo Post-Second World War Europe’s 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

New 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

UNCTAD Secretary-General Addresses Annual Board Session

(Reissued as received)

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SG/SM/7188

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES INDONESIAN ASSEMBLY’S VOIDING OF DECREE INTEGRATING EAST TIMOR INTO INDONESIA

The 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

This 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”.