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GA/9616
29 September 1999


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GA/9616


SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGE EVEN-HANDED APPROACHES TO CRISES

19990929

"Rwanda demonstrates what Kosovo might have become, had we not intervened in 1999 and Kosovo demonstrates what Rwanda might have been, had we intervened in 1994", Bronislaw Geremek, the Foreign Minister of Poland, told the General Assembly this afternoon as it continued its general debate.

SC/6734
29 September 1999


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SC/6734


COUNCIL MEETS TO REVIEW IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN SECRETARY-GENERAL’S 1998 REPORT ON AFRICA

19990929

Meeting to Resume Tomorrow

"Africa fatigue" was an affront to the very idea of a responsible international community, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council as it convened an open meeting this morning on the situation in Africa.

GA/SM/104
29 September 1999


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GA/SM/104


PRESIDENT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDRESSES SESSION'S ORGANIZATION AT HEADQUARTERS WORKING LUNCHEON

19990929

Following is the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Theo-Ben Gurirab (Namibia), at the first working luncheon for Chairmen of the main committees and Secretariat officials held in New York on 29 September:

SG/SM/7153
29 September 1999


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SG/SM/7153
AFR/177


SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS POSITIVE CHANGES IN AFRICA

19990929

Calls for Greater Support to Nations Making Good-Faith Efforts Urges Fairness, Consistency in Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Operations

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Security Council's ministerial meeting on Africa:

GA/SM/102
28 September 1999


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GA/SM/102


GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT REJECTS IDEAS ON 'CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS' HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, IN REMARKS TO SOUTH-EAST ASIAN STATES

19990928

Following is the text of remarks made by the President of the fifty-fourth General Assembly, Theo-Ben Gurirab (Namibia), to the reception hosted in his honour by the Chairman of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in New York on 28 September: