Organizational Meeting Also Unable to Decide on Dates, Election of Bureau Members: Further Effort to be Made, After Consultations, Early in 2000
CORRECTION
On page three of Press Release GA/9670 issued 29 November, the summary of document A/54/L.46, which contains amendments to the draft resolution on the Code of Democratic Conduct, was inadvertently abbreviated. The summary should read as follows:
Considers Reports of Austria, Azerbaijan, Finland, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Peru and Uzbekistan
(Reissued as received; delayed in transmission.)
Commodity Prices Depressed; Address to WTO in Seattle Urges Reform of Trade Regulations 'Conducive to Food Security for All'
The Secretary-General travelled to Seattle, Washington, on Monday evening, 29 November, to address, the following morning, the opening session of the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
SEATTLE/NAIROBI, 2 December (UNEP) -- At the third World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Seattle, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is releasing six new reports that demonstrate how countries can take action to address trade-related environmental degradation.
The following text was issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a press release on the eve of the third WTO ministerial meeting:
Committee Takes up Budget Implications of Texts on MINUGUA, International Law Commission, Central America and Small Arms
Issues Include Environment and Sustainable Development, Habitat II, Sustainable Development and International Economic Cooperation
