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SG/SM/7334

UN COMMITTED TO ENSURING WORLD WATER SECURITY AND "BLUE REVOLUTION", SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO WORLD WATER FORUM

21 March 2000


Press Release
SG/SM/7334
ENV/DEV/534


UN COMMITTED TO ENSURING WORLD WATER SECURITY AND ‘BLUE REVOLUTION’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO WORLD WATER FORUM

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Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Water Forum in The Hague, to be delivered on his behalf by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer, on 22 March:

UNEP/66

VIENNA CONVENTION PROTECTING OZONE LAYER LAUDED 15 YEARS AFTER SIGNATURE

21 March 2000


Press Release
UNEP/66


VIENNA CONVENTION PROTECTING OZONE LAYER LAUDED 15 YEARS AFTER SIGNATURE

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NAIROBI, 21 March (UNEP) -- Tomorrow, 22 March, marks the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. With the adoption of that Convention, the foundation was laid for concerted international efforts to protect the ozone layer.

HR/CT/552

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF COMMENT ON ARTICLE 3, CONCERNING EQUAL CIVIL, POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN

20 March 2000


Press Release
HR/CT/552


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF COMMENT ON ARTICLE 3, CONCERNING EQUAL CIVIL, POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN

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The Human Rights Committee this afternoon continued its consideration of its draft general comment on article 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by reviewing paragraphs 12 through 19.