Press Release

9 June 1999

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WOM/1130

CLEAR INFORMATION ON IMPACT OF PRIVATIZING HEALTH CARE IN GEORGIA ON WOMEN'S GENERAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CALLED FOR IN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

19990609 Committee Continues Consideration of Georgia's Report on Compliance With Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

9 June 1999

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9 June 1999

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HR/4418

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT CONCLUDES HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO COLOMBIA

19990609 (Reissued as received from the Office of the Special Representative.)

9 June 1999

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WOM/1129

GEORGIA'S EFFORTS TO ADVANCE WOMEN'S STATUS AFFECTED BY CONFLICT, ECONOMICS, COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TOLD

19990609 Georgia's Representative Introduces Initial Report; Experts Raise Questions on Use of Quotas, 'Cult' of the Mother

9 June 1999

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8 June 1999

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IAEA/1331

SAFEGUARDS INSPECTION BY IAEA CONDUCTED AT VINCA INSTITUTE, OUTSIDE BELGRADE

19990608

VIENNA, 8 June (IAEA) -- After an interruption in regular inspections since January, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) performed a safeguards inspection at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences outside Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 3 and 4 June.

8 June 1999

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SG/SM/7022

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HIGHLIGHTS FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT OF UNITED NATIONS ATTITUDE TOWARDS PRIVATE SECTOR

19990608 Kofi Annan Says Business Community and United Nations Are Engaged In 'Something Larger than Ourselves': Human Security in Broadest Sense

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United States Chamber of Commerce, in Washington, D.C., today:

8 June 1999

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SG/SM/7021
OBV/98

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM WILL NOT LAG BEHIND IN SEARCH FOR CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT

19990608

Following is the text of a message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which will be observed on 17 June:

8 June 1999

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PI/1144
SOC/4512

INTERDEPENDENCE OF GENERATIONS FOCUS OF SECOND 'AGE QUAKE' DEBATE TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS 10 JUNE

19990608

Series Commemorates International Year of Older Persons 1999

The second in the series of four "Age Quake" Debates on the theme "Interdependence of Generations: Ability not Chronology" will be held from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, 10 June, in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at United Nations Headquarters.

8 June 1999

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DSG/SM/56

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES THERE CANNOT BE SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS UNLESS PEOPLE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY FEEL THEY ARE IN DRIVING SEAT

19990608

Addressing High-Level Workshop, Louise Frechette Says Both World Bank And UN Development Framework Initiatives Place Concerned Countries at Centre