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GA/EF/2811
19 March 1998


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GA/EF/2811


ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES RESUMED SESSION

19980319 Speakers Stress Need to Address ODA Decline, External Debt Burden, Limited Concentration of FDI in Consideration on Financing for Development

TAD/1855
18 March 1998


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TAD/1855


LEADING MULTINATIONALS VOTE THEIR CONFIDENCE IN ASIA

19980318

GENEVA, 18 March (UNCTAD) -- Results released today of a worldwide survey of leading multinational companies find that overall confidence in East and South-East Asia as a destination for foreign direct investment remains unshaken, despite the financial crisis in the region.

SEA/1577
18 March 1998


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SEA/1577


TADEUSZ BACHLEDA-CURUS (POLAND), PRESIDENT OF SEABED ASSEMBLY FOR 1998

19980318

KINGSTON, 17 March -- Tadeusz Bachleda-Curus (Poland), who was elected today as President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority for 1998, is Vice-Secretary and Principal Geologist of the State in the Ministry of Environment Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry of Poland.