Press Release
DCF/373
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES SECOND PART OF 1999 SESSION
19990625(Reissued as received.)
(Reissued as received.)
Concluding its three-week twenty-first session this afternoon, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted recommendations for advancing the status of women in Georgia, Nepal, Belize, Chile, Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom.
VIENNA, 25 June (UN Information Service) -- A $13 million programme that should greatly increase Iran's ability to control illicit drugs will be officially launched by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in Tehran on 26 June, the International Day against Illicit Drug Abuse and Trafficking.
The Security Council this afternoon recommended to the General Assembly that the Republic of Kiribati be admitted to membership of the United Nations. That admission would bring to 186 the Organization's total membership.