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15 March 1999

Press Release
UNU/191

UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY CONCLUDES TWO-YEAR LONG MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES

19990315

The United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER) and Queen Elisabeth House, Oxford, United Kingdom, have just completed a two-year long multidisciplinary research project on "The Wave of Emergencies of the Last Decade: Causes, Extent, Predictability and Response".

15 March 1999

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STAT/439

15 March 1999

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SG/A/690
PI/1118

15 March 1999

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L/2915

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON INSTRUMENTS TO COMBAT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM BEGINS THIRD SESSION

19990315 Draft Conventions on Suppression of Acts Of Nuclear Terrorism, Suppression of Financing Terrorism Taken Up

15 March 1999

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IK/273

15 March 1999

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GA/AB/3286

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE TAKES UP FINANCING OF UNITED NATIONS MISSIONS IN HAITI

19990315

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) met this morning to take up the financing of United Nations missions in Haiti.

12 March 1999

Press Release
WOM/1117

DRAFT OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION APPROVED BY COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

19990312 Commission Requests Economic and Social Council To Authorize Resumption of Forty-Third Session to Conclude Work

12 March 1999

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WOM/1116

WOMEN'S COMMISSION URGES GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN WOMEN'S ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE TO BETTER PROTECT THEM FROM HIV INFECTION

19990312 Text on Rights of Palestinian Women Approved by Vote of 33-1-4

12 March 1999

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SG/SM/6923

SECRETARY-GENERAL, EXPRESSING GREAT SADNESS AT DEATH OF YEHUDI MENUHIN DESCRIBES HIM AS 'CITIZEN OF THE WORLD IN FULLEST SENSE'

19990312 The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General, who learned with great sadness this morning of the death of Lord Menuhim, has issued the following statement:

12 March 1999

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SG/SM/6922

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN, HIS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR EAST TIMOR, AND FOREIGN MINISTERS OF INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL

19990312