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GA/9425

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES PEACEKEEPING FUNDS FOR 1998/1999, ACTS ALSO ON YEAR 2000 CONVERSION PROBLEM FOR COMPUTERS

26 June 1998


Press Release
GA/9425


GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES PEACEKEEPING FUNDS FOR 1998/1999, ACTS ALSO ON YEAR 2000 CONVERSION PROBLEM FOR COMPUTERS

19980626

The General Assembly decided to appropriate a total of $636.7 million gross ($611.7 million net) for peacekeeping operations for the period from 30 June 1998 to 1 July 1999, as it took action this morning on draft decisions and resolutions recommended by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

GA/9421

ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF DRUG MENACE; PLIGHT OF TRANSIT COUNTRIES, VULNERABLE SOCIAL GROUPS AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED

10 June 1998


Press Release
GA/9421


ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF DRUG MENACE; PLIGHT OF TRANSIT COUNTRIES, VULNERABLE SOCIAL GROUPS AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED

19980610

The most effective way to contain the flow of drugs from poorer countries is to support their efforts towards sustainable economies, Ghana's Minister of the Interior told the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its special session devoted to countering the world's drug problem together.

GA/9419

HUMAN RIGHTS AND SCOURGE OF DRUGS, DRIFTING OF YOUTH, ROLE OF FAMILY AS STABILIZING FORCE AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED AT SPECIAL SESSION

9 June 1998


Press Release
GA/9419


HUMAN RIGHTS AND SCOURGE OF DRUGS, DRIFTING OF YOUTH, ROLE OF FAMILY AS STABILIZING FORCE AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED AT SPECIAL SESSION

19980609

It is fitting that the General Assembly's special session devoted to countering the world drug problem together is being held on the fiftieth anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cameroon's representative said this evening as the Assembly continued its three-day special session.