Plenary

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GA/9615

GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES IN ASSEMBLY; EAST TIMOR, MIDDLE EAST PEACE, SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM AMONG TOPICS RAISED

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GA/9616

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE EVEN-HANDED APPROACHES TO CRISES

"Rwanda demonstrates what Kosovo might have become, had we not intervened in 1999 and Kosovo demonstrates what Rwanda might have been, had we intervened in 1994", Bronislaw Geremek, the Foreign Minister of Poland, told the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its general debate.

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GA/9613
ENV/DEV/523

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION HEARS 32 SPEAKERS AS REVIEW OF 1994 BARBADOS ACTION PROGRAMME CONTINUES

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GA/9614
ENV/DEV/524

SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 1994 BARBADOS PROGRAMME OF ACTION CONCLUDES; FINAL DOCUMENTS ADOPTED

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GA/9610
ENV/DEV/519

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS TWO-DAY SPECIAL SESSION TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF 1994 BARBADOS ACTION PROGRAMME

Small Island States "Front-Line Zones" for Problems Of Environment and Development, Secretary-General Tells Session

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GA/9612
ENV/DEV/522

THIRTY SPEAKERS ADDRESS SPECIAL SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF BARBADOS PROGRAMME OF ACTION

Thirty speakers addressed the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its two-day special session to review progress achieved in implementing the Programme of Action adopted at the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (Barbados, 1994).

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GA/9609

THE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS WIDELY DISCUSSED BY SPEAKERS AT AFTERNOON MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

A thorough study of the short- and long-term effects of sanctions, especially on innocent victims, should be undertaken, Bonaya Adhi Godana, the Foreign Minister of Kenya, stressed this afternoon as he addressed the General Assembly at the continuation of its general debate.

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GA/9608

QUESTIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, HUMAN RIGHTS RAISED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS

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GA/9607

ASSEMBLY CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

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GA/9606

QUESTIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, THE STATE SYSTEM, THE FUTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION RAISED BY GENERAL DEBATE SPEAKERS

The United Nations could not assume that it would survive intact by clinging to structures and processes conceived in 1945, S. Jayakumar, Foreign Minister of Singapore, told the General Assembly as it continued its General Debate this morning. While it was clear that it must now change, less clear was how it should change.