Stressing that United Nations reform should focus on the Security Council, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Foreign Minister of Estonia, told the General Assembly that the key issue in that body was voting practice, not the shop-worn issue of non-permanent membership.
Tadjikistan Proposes Global Observance to Combat Water Pollution
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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.
Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk Al-Shara, told the General Assembly this morning that the Israeli Foreign Minister had carried the flag of the culture of peace in his statement yesterday, while fully ignoring the fact that the Israeli occupation was the main reason for the absence of peace.
"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.
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).
