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HR/CT/556
23 March 2000


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HR/CT/556


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF MONGOLIA’S REPORT

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As Mongolia continued to answer specific questions on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights this morning, members of the Human Rights Committee once again underscored the brevity of responses and the lack of detailed examples provided by the delegation.

SG/SM/7337
23 March 2000


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SG/SM/7337
SC/6831


SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL ON ROLE OF UN PEACEKEEPING IN DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the Security Council as it met today at Headquarters to consider the role of United Nations Peacekeeping in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration:

GA/AB/3360
23 March 2000


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GA/AB/3360


UNITED NATIONS HAS TAKEN ‘STEP BACK FROM FINANCIAL BRINK’ IN 1999, UNDER- SECRETARY-GENERAL CONNOR TELLS ASSEMBLY’S BUDGETARY COMMITTEE

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Current Year Projection Is More Cash, Better Assessments Collection, Lower Level Of Debt -– ‘A UN Better Prepared to Meet Responsibilities Member States Gave It’

ORG/1299
23 March 2000


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ORG/1299
PI/1230


UNITED NATIONS NOMINATED FOR COMPUTERWORLD SMITHSONIAN AWARD

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The United Nations Integrated Management Information Systems (IMIS) will become part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian’s Nations Museum of American History on Monday, 3 April, when the 2000 Information Technology Innovation Collection is formally presented to the Institution.

GA/PAL/826
23 March 2000


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GA/PAL/826


COMMITTEE ON EXERCISE OF INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HEARS REPORT ON UN ASIAN MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

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The Pope's historic visit to Palestine was the most important recent development on the situation in the Middle East, Nasser Al-Kidwa, the Permanent Observer for Palestine, told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People this morning.