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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.

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/9773
19 September 2000


Press Release
GA/9773


ASSEMBLY HEARS RANGE OF SPEAKERS AS GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

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Palestine, Panama, Indonesia among Issues Surveyed; Contradiction between National Sovereignty, Humanitarian Intervention Stressed

GA/9772
18 September 2000


Press Release
GA/9772


EMPHASIS PLACED ON IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY AND PEACE-BUILDING IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE

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It would be simplistic and incorrect wishful thinking to suggest that the United Nations intervene in internal armed conflicts across the board, Sri Lanka's Minister for Foreign Affairs said this afternoon as the General Assembly continued its general debate.