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SG/SM/7409
22 May 2000


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SG/SM/7409
DC/2711


'HISTORIC CONSENSUS' SIGNIFICANT STEP TOWARDS MORE PEACEFUL WORLD, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT CONCLUSION OF NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE

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The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday, 20 may, at the conclusion of the 2000 Review Conference of the parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT):

HR/4472
22 May 2000


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HR/4472


COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION

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Considers Reports of Poland, Portugal, China, Paraguay, El Salvador, United States, Netherlands, Slovenia

GENEVA, 19 May (UN Information Service) -- The Committee against Torture this morning concluded its twenty-fourth session following three weeks of meetings at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

GA/COL/3029
22 May 2000


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GA/COL/3029


DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR IN MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS

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MAJURO, Marshall Islands, 22 May -- The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples held a Pacific Regional Seminar in Majuro, Marshall Islands, from 16 to 19 May 2000.

SEA/1675
22 May 2000


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SEA/1675


MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION OPENS AT HEADQUARTERS

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Peter Donigi (Papua New Guinea) Elected President

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was increasingly becoming one of the unique instruments of international law, the President of the tenth meeting of States parties to the Convention said this morning, as it began its five-day session.