Press Release

12 October 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6739
GA/DIS/3108

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN OPENING STATEMENT TO FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE, SAYS GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT MUST REMAIN PRIORITY OF UN AGENDA

19981012 Kofi Annan Stresses Link between Disarmament And Development, Says 'Conflict Is Worst Enemy of Development Everywhere'

12 October 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3107

GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT MUST REMAIN AT TOP OF UNITED NATIONS AGENDA, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE

19981012 Committee Begins General Debate, with Speakers Highlighting Weaknesses in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

12 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/135/

MAJORITY OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE LIST, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD CORRECTION

19981012

On page 11 of Press Release GA/SPD/135 of 9 October, the representative speaking for Iran was MEHDI YOUSEFI, not MEHDI DANESH YAZDI.

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9 October 1998

Press Release
GA/9477

GLOBAL PEACE, PROSPERITY NOT ASSURED WITHOUT THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN AFRICA SAYS JAPAN, AS ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES WAYS TO SUSTAIN PEACE ON CONTINENT

19981009 Brazil Says Universal Membership and Moral Authority of Assembly Made it Appropriate Organ to Address Root Causes of African Conflict

9 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3469

9 October 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6738
GA/9476

OPENING ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON AFRICA REPORT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS CAN DO MORE IN AFRICA'S STRUGGLE FOR PROSPERITY

19981009 Check against Delivery Kofi Annan Says Report's Value Will Be Measured By Lasting Difference It Makes to Lives of Africa's Poorest

9 October 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2820

GLOBAL ECONOMIC PLAYING FIELD NOT LEVEL, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD

19981009 Economic and Financial Committee Takes Up Macroeconomic Policy Questions

9 October 1998

Press Release
IHA/666

9 October 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3106

DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE OPENS GENERAL DEBATE 12 OCTOBER, WITH FOCUS ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION, SMALL ARMS

19981009 Background Release Nuclear Disarmament Debate Given Renewed Intensity Following Nuclear Tests by India and Pakistan in May

9 October 1998

Press Release
GA/SPD/135

MAJORITY OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE LIST, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19981009 Committee Continues Discussion of Decolonization Issues, Hears Petitioners on Western Sahara, Elects Vice-Chairman