Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

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Plenary

GA/9614/

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

30 September 1999


Press Release
GA/9614/
ENV/DEV/524/


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

19990930

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/9614-ENV/DEV/524 issued on 28 September, in the fourth paragraph on page 5, the speaker should read:

` ABDUS SAMAD AZAD, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.

GA/9616

SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE EVEN-HANDED APPROACHES TO CRISES

29 September 1999


Press Release
GA/9616


SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE EVEN-HANDED APPROACHES TO CRISES

19990929

"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.

GA/9612

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

27 September 1999


Press Release
GA/9612
ENV/DEV/522


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

19990927

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).

GA/9609

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

25 September 1999


Press Release
GA/9609


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

19990925

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.