Fifth Committee is Told of ESCAP Recommendations to Minimize Impact: Part-by-Part Review of Programme Budget for 2000-2001 Continues
Other Resolutions Approved Concern Test-Ban Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, Middle East, Landmine Convention
Speakers In Debate On Disaster-Reduction Decade Stress Indissoluble Link of Prevention, Sustainable Development
CORRECTION
On page 1 of Press Release GA/EF/2889 issued 8 November, the first full paragraph should read:
Indonesia Says Implementation of Existing Measures Would Have Minimized Loss of Life, Property Destruction
Schools in Some Nations said to Have Virtual Hymn to Intolerance - Proclaiming Countrys Own Religion as Only One
Delegates Warn of Risks in Economic Globalization, Urge Efforts to Bridge Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor Countries
(Reissued as received.)
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
NAIROBI, 8 November (UNEP) -- The fate of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries will be determined over the next twelve months, Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said here today.
