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GA/SM/103

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, IN CLOSING STATEMENT TO SPECIAL SESSION, SAYS TIME RUNNING OUT ON PLANS TO ASSIST SMALL ISLAND STATES

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GA/EF/2857

SECOND COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRMEN AND RAPPORTEUR, ADOPTS PROGRAMME OF WORK

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GA/9616

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE EVEN-HANDED APPROACHES TO CRISES

"Rwanda demonstrates what Kosovo might have become, had we not intervened in 1999 and Kosovo demonstrates what Rwanda might have been, had we intervened in 1994", Bronislaw Geremek, the Foreign Minister of Poland, told the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its general debate.

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GA/9615

GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES IN ASSEMBLY; EAST TIMOR, MIDDLE EAST PEACE, SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM AMONG TOPICS RAISED

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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS NINTH ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF OLDER PERSONS

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WORLD HABITAT DAY TO BE OBSERVED AT HEADQUAERTERS ON MONDAY, 4 OCTOBER

Highlighting the theme “Cities for All”, a panel discussion to mark World Habitat Day will be held in the Dag Hammarskjöld auditorium from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, 4 October.

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UNEP/48

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME REPORTS ASSESS ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS IN SMALL ISLAND STATES

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SG/SM/7152
OBV/111

IN WORLD FOOD DAY MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘DEVELOPMENT THAT DOES NOT PROMOTE FOOD SECURITY FOR ALL PEOPLE HAS WEAK FOUNDATIONS’

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for World Food Day, which will be observed on 16 October:

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SG/SM/7151
OBV/110

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR EFFECTIVE RAPID-ALERT SYSTEMS ACCESSIBLE TO POOREST COUNTRIES TO REDUCE EFFECTS OF NATURAL CATASTROPHES

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction, which will be observed on 13 October:

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SG/2031/Rev.2*
BIO/3053/Rev.2*

KOFI A. ANNAN, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Kofi Annan, of Ghana, is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his term on 1 January 1997.