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GA/9783
28 September 2000


Press Release
GA/9783


ASSEMBLY TAKES NOTE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ANNUAL REPORT ON WORK OF ORGANIZATION

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Water was life and the issue of fresh water would become one of the main challenges of the new century, the representative of Tajikistan told the General Assembly this morning, as it concluded its consideration of the Secretary- General's Report on the Work of the Organization.

GA/9782
27 September 2000


Press Release
GA/9782


CONTINUING CONSIDERATION OF REPORT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL, ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS MAINTAIN FOCUS ON PEACE OPERATIONS, SANCTIONS, HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

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The Security Council had used an elastic concept of security to stretch its mandate well beyond what the Charter gave it, said the representative of India this afternoon, as the General Assembly continued its consideration of the Secretary-General's report on the work of the Organization.

GA/9775
20 September 2000


Press Release
GA/9775


GLOBALIZATION JUST NEW NAME FOR OLD UNJUST SYSTEM,GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD, AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

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Calling globalization “the latest buzzword”, Theo-Ben Gurirab, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Namibia told the General Assembly’s general debate this morning that it was merely a new name for an old, cruel and unjust system that had long been willy-nilly imposed upon the peoples of the Third World.

GA/9776
20 September 2000


Press Release
GA/9776


EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND COMBAT DRUG-TRAFFICKING DESCRIBED DURING ASSEMBLY DEBATE

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The situation in Myanmar had been under unfair scrutiny and the subject of political pressure by a number of powerful countries for quite some time, that country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, U Win Aung, told the fifty-fifth general session of the General Assembly as it met this afternoon to continue its general debate.