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DSG/SM/31
17 November 1998


Press Release
DSG/SM/31


DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS POOR COUNTRIES, STRUGGLING TO ADOPT GROWTH POLICIES, DESERVE GREATER SUPPORT IN THEIR EFFORTS

19981117 Tells D.C. Audience Growing Gap in Global Living Standards Can Be Encouragement to Militancy, Threat to Peace and Security

This is the text of an address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette today to the Women's Foreign Policy Group in Washington, D.C.:

17 November 1998


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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS UN WEBSITE TO PROVIDE LIVE WEBCAST OF WORLD TELEVISION FORUM

19981117

The United Nations website will provide a live webcast of the third United Nations World Television Forum, which will be held at Headquarters on 19 and 20 November. This will be the first live webcast of an event which will be covered by the new high-definition television (HDTV), and will be available at the following URL: