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IAEA/1335
1 October 1999


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IAEA/1335


ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNERS

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VIENNA, 30 September (IAEA) -- The forty-third regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has elected 11 member States to the IAEA Board of Governors, the 35- member policy-making body.

IAEA/1336
1 October 1999


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IAEA/1336


ACCIDENT AT THE TOKAIMURA FUEL CONVERSION PLANT

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Vienna, 1 October (IAEA) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency learned at approximately 9 a.m. Vienna time on September 30 that an apparent criticality accident had occurred at a fuel conversion plant in Tokaimura.

GA/9620
1 October 1999


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GA/9620


VOTING PRACTICE, NOT `SHOP-WORN ISSUE OF NON-PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP’ KEY IN SECURITY COUNCIL, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

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Stressing that United Nations reform should focus on the Security Council, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Foreign Minister of Estonia, told the General Assembly that the key issue in that body was voting practice, not the shop-worn issue of non-permanent membership.

1 October 1999


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GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON AGEING ISSUES IN TWO-DAY DEBATE ON 4-5 OCTOBER

19991001

Challenging and changing the negative stereotypes treating ageing as a disease or affliction is a major objective of many delegates and non-governmental officials as the United Nations General Assembly prepares to discuss possible policy recommendations on ageing issues in a two-day debate on 4 to 5 October.

GA/9617
30 September 1999


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GA/9617


SYRIA WARNS AGAINST SENDING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ‘BACK TO SQUARE ONE’; REPUBLIC OF KOREA URGES REUNIFICATION OF KOREAN PENINSULA

19990930

Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk Al-Shara, told the General Assembly this morning that the Israeli Foreign Minister had carried the flag of the culture of peace in his statement yesterday, while fully ignoring the fact that the Israeli occupation was the main reason for the absence of peace.

ORG/1290
30 September 1999


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ORG/1290


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN OCTOBER

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The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in October, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month: