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IAEA/1336

ACCIDENT AT THE TOKAIMURA FUEL CONVERSION PLANT

1 October 1999


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IAEA/1336


ACCIDENT AT THE TOKAIMURA FUEL CONVERSION PLANT

19991001

Vienna, 1 October (IAEA) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency learned at approximately 9 a.m. Vienna time on September 30 that an apparent criticality accident had occurred at a fuel conversion plant in Tokaimura.

IAEA/1335

ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO I"A BOARD OF GOVERNERS

1 October 1999


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IAEA/1335


ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNERS

19991001

VIENNA, 30 September (IAEA) -- The forty-third regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has elected 11 member States to the IAEA Board of Governors, the 35- member policy-making body.

GA/9620

VOTING PRACTICE, NOT `SHOP-WORN ISSUE OF NON-PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP" KEY IN SECURITY COUNCIL, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

1 October 1999


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GA/9620


VOTING PRACTICE, NOT `SHOP-WORN ISSUE OF NON-PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP’ KEY IN SECURITY COUNCIL, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

19991001

Stressing that United Nations reform should focus on the Security Council, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Foreign Minister of Estonia, told the General Assembly that the key issue in that body was voting practice, not the shop-worn issue of non-permanent membership.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON AGEING ISSUES IN TWO-DAY DEBATE ON 4-5 OCTOBER

1 October 1999


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GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON AGEING ISSUES IN TWO-DAY DEBATE ON 4-5 OCTOBER

19991001

Challenging and changing the negative stereotypes treating ageing as a disease or affliction is a major objective of many delegates and non-governmental officials as the United Nations General Assembly prepares to discuss possible policy recommendations on ageing issues in a two-day debate on 4 to 5 October.

SC/6737

NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN OCTOBER

30 September 1999


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SC/6737


NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN OCTOBER

19990930

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the new Chairmen of the United Nations security bodies for October:

Security Council

Sergey V. Lavrov (Russian Federation) succeeds Arnold Peter van Walsum (Netherlands) as President of the Security Council.

SC/6736

TWO-DAY SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING HEARS 54 SPEAKERS ON SECRETARY GENERAL"S 1998 REPORT ON AFRICA

30 September 1999


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SC/6736


TWO-DAY SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING HEARS 54 SPEAKERS ON SECRETARY GENERAL’S 1998 REPORT ON AFRICA

19990930

The West was prepared to spend $40 billion to fight a war in the Balkans, and less than 1 per cent of that to save the lives of tens of millions in Africa, the representative of Nigeria told the Security Council at the end of its two-day open debate on the situation in Africa.