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Press Release


20 September 1999


Press Release


NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS MEDIA ARRANGEMENTS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION

19990920

ON SMALL ISLANDS

The special session of the General Assembly for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 27-28 September 1999.

WFP/1053
17 September 1999


Press Release
WFP/1053


WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL AIRDROPS IN EAST TIMOR

19990917

ROME, 17 September (WFP) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that the first humanitarian airdrops were completed successfully in East Timor today, with the delivery of desperately needed food and blankets to tens of thousands of people hiding in the mountains from political violence.