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GA/SPD/174

NUCLEAR-WEAPON STATES’ POSITION ON TOTAL ABOLITION OF ATOMIC ARMS CALLED `UNACCEPTABLE POSTURING’ BY INDONESIA

Opening Debate on Atomic Radiation Effects, Committee Studies Scientific Committee Report, Related Draft

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SG/A/711
IK/283

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW FORCE COMMANDER FOR UNITED NATIONS IRAQ-KUWAIT MISSION

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GA/SHC/3555

HIGH-LEVEL REPRESENTATION SOUGHT FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S SPECIAL SESSION ON ROLE OF WOMEN 21ST CENTURY

Committee Approves Text on ‘Women in 2000’; In Other Drafts, Action Urged on Racial Discrimination, Convention Against Torture

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SAG/64

FOOD AND AGRICULTUE ORGANIZATION TO ELECT DIRECTOR-GENERAL, VOTE ON BUDGET FOR 2000 - 2001 AT ROME CONFERENCE

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SG/SM/7209/Rev.1*
UNU/192/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES JAPAN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MULTILATERALISM; URGES GREATER INVOLVEMENT IN PEACEKEEPING, REGIONAL INITIATIVES

Following is the text of an address, delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations University on 11 November, entitled, "Japan's World Role in the Twenty-first Century":

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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/9654

AS ASSEMBLY REITERATES CALL FOR END TO `EXTRATERRITORIAL MEASURES’, CUBA ANNOUNCES $100 BILLION DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST UNITED STATES

Cuba Equates Blockade's Effects with Genocide; United States Calls It Matter of Bilateral Trade Policy

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GA/EF/2891

TRAINING, RESEARCH, PALESTINIAN-ARAB SOVEREIGNTY OVER NATURAL RESOURCES, AMONG ISSUES ADDRESSED IN WIDE-RANGING DEBATE

Committee Also Hears Draft Texts On Small Island Developing States, Training-Research Proposals