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SOC/NAR/818

NETHERLANDS TO CONTRIBUTE $4.3 MILLION FOR UN EFFORTS AGAINST DRUG ABUSE

24 July 2000


Press Release
SOC/NAR/818


NETHERLANDS TO CONTRIBUTE $4.3 MILLION FOR UN EFFORTS AGAINST DRUG ABUSE

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VIENNA, 24 July (UN Information Service) —- With an agreement signed here today the Government of the Netherlands has pledged 10 million Dutch Guilders ($4,318,000) to the Vienna-based United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP).

ECOSOC/5920

UNITED NATIONS CONTACTS G-8 ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GAP

21 July 2000


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ECOSOC/5920
PI/1263


UNITED NATIONS CONTACTS G-8 ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GAP

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NEW YORK, 21 July -- With concern about the global development gap and the plight of poor countries dominating the run-up to the Group of 8 Summit opening today in Okinawa, the United Nations is forwarding a ministerial declaration on the critical importance of closing the digital divide to Japanese Prime Minster Yoshiro Mori.

NGO/369

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SUSPEND CONSULTATIVE STATUS OF ASOPAZCO FOR THREE YEARS

21 July 2000


Press Release
NGO/369


NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SUSPEND CONSULTATIVE STATUS OF ASOPAZCO FOR THREE YEARS

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The Committee on NGOs decided this afternoon to recommend that the Economic and Social Council suspend for three years the consultative status of the non- governmental organization (NGO) ASOPAZCO (International Council for the Association for Peace in the Continents).

HR/CT/581

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONTINUES REVIEW OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

21 July 2000


Press Release
HR/CT/581


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONTINUES REVIEW OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

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(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 21 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this morning continued its review of a report by Australia on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

ECOSOC/5918

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONCLUDES HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SEGMENT

21 July 2000


Press Release
ECOSOC/5918


ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONCLUDES HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SEGMENT

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) was ready to implement a comprehensive action plan integrating HIV/AIDS prevention into humanitarian action, the Economic and Social Council was told this morning as it finished discussing special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance.