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GA/DIS/3165

FIRST COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT ON ANTARCTICA CONCLUDES WORK FOR CURRENT SESSION

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GA/SHC/3557

SOCIAL COMMITTEE URGES STEPS TO PREVENT ABUSE OF STREET CHILDREN, PROTECT WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT SITUATIONS

Other Texts Seek Assembly Action on Rights of Girl Child, Promotion of International Convention on Migrant Workers and Families

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HR/4437

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD TWENTY-FIRST SESSION, 15 NOVEMBER – 3 DECEMBER

Committee Scheduled to Consider Efforts of Bulgaria, Cameroon, Argentina, Armenia, Mexico, Solomon Islands

(Reissued as received.)

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GA/AB/3340

FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP SECTION OF PROPOSED PROGRAMME BUDGET ON COMMON SUPPORT SERVICES

Also Discusses Part of Budget Related to Public Information

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon discussed common support services as it resumed its part-by-part consideration of the proposed programme budget for 2000-2001.

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PI/1198

MUSEUM OF TELEVISION AND RADIO, IN COOPERATION WITH UNITED NATIONS, TO HOLD ITS EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S TELEVISION FESTIVAL

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SG/SM/7208
OBV/121

SECRETARY GENERAL WELCOMES `ACCESSIBILITY’ AS THEME OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DISABLED PERSONS OBSERVANCE

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons, to be celebrated on 3 December 1999:

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GA/9655

ASSEMBLY HAILS THREE-MONTH BETHLEHEM COMMEMORATION AS SYMBOL OF PEACE; SPEAKERS CITE BENEFITS OF PROMOTING TOURISM, UPGRADING INFRASTRUCTURE

Also Approves Recommendations For Follow-up to Social Development, Strategies on Ageing

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GA/SM/121

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT URGES DAG HAMMARSKJOLD FUND SCHOLARS, TO BE ‘MOVERS AND SHAKERS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE’

Following are the remarks of the President of the General Assembly, Theo-Ben Gurirab (Namibia) at the United Nations Correspondents Association presentation of certificates to the 1999 Scholars of the Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Scholarship Fund at Headquarters on 10 November:

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SC/6749

PROSECUTOR FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, RWANDA TRIBUNALS BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL, EMPHASIZES NEED FOR COOPERATION FROM STATES

Carla Del Ponte Says Council Must Act When States Fail To Comply; Council Members Stress Need for Execution of Tribunal Arrest Warrants

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GA/SHC/3554

SOCIAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD INTERVENTIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SHOULD TAKE ACCOUNT OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

Agreed, Says Australia, but International Action Merited When Violations Disregard Universally Accepted Standards