WOM/1120
16 March 1999
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) met this morning to take up the financing of United Nations missions in Haiti.
The United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER) and Queen Elisabeth House, Oxford, United Kingdom, have just completed a two-year long multidisciplinary research project on "The Wave of Emergencies of the Last Decade: Causes, Extent, Predictability and Response".