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GA/9603/

CONVENTION TO REPATRIATE AFRICA’S ILLEGALLY TRANSFERRED CAPITAL CALLED FOR BY NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESS

CORRECTION

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GA/EF/2861

SPEAKERS STRESS DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISES, CITE PROJECTED GROWTH-RATE SHORTFALLS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Representative of Syria Warns That Shrinking Role of State, Triumph Of Market Economies Threaten Welfare of Population in Developing World

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GA/SPD/159

FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS PETITIONERS ON GUAM, WESTERN SAHARA, NEW CALEDONIA AND EAST TIMOR

The colonized people of Guam would vote on its status by 4 July 2000, a representative of that Territory’s Governor told the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) this afternoon, as the Committee continued consideration of decolonization issues and heard petitioners.

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DSG/SM/68
DC/2664

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES UNIVERSAL RATIFICATION OF TEST BAN TREATY

Following is the text of an address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the conference on facilitating the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), delivered this morning in Vienna:

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GA/SHC/3517/

THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES UP SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES; CENTRALITY OF ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGIES STRESSED

CORRECTION

On page 8 of Press Release GA/SHC/3517 issued 6 October 1999, the statement of the representative of Bangladesh should read as follows:

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GA/EF/2858

SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS CALLS FOR STABILIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM, FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENTAL DIMENSION OF FINANCE

Speakers Assail High Cost of Globalization, Call for Integration of Least Developed into World Trading System

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SAG/59

NEED FOR DATA ON RURAL WOMEN FOCUS OF ROME MINISTERIAL MEETING

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GA/9627

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS DISCUSSION ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ANNUAL REPORT ON WORK OF ORGANIZAION

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GA/SHC/3517

THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES UP SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES; CENTRALITY OF ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGIES STRESSED

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GA/EF/2859

SPEAKERS FOCUS ON AFRICA’S DECLINING SHARE OF WORLD TRADE AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

The Continent’s Economic And Social Crisis Called Most Critical Challenge For Humanity As Millennium Approaches