Press Release

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2794

RURAL DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, CUTS ON MILITARY EXPENDITURES, ENDING CIVIL STRIFE AMONG ISSUES RAISED AS SECOND COMMITTEE DEBATES END OF POVERTY

19971112 Drafts on Review of Habitat Agenda in 2001, Women in Development, Implementation of Programme of Action on Small Island States Introduced

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3190

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3442

PROGRESS NEEDED ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DRAFT DECLARATION, SAY THIRD COMMITTEE SPEAKERS

19971111 Text Being Discussed in Human Rights Working Group; Two Draft Resolutions on Refugee Issues Also Introduced

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2793

SUPPORT FOR WORKING GROUP ON INFORMATICS, REJECTION OF VANUATU'S GRADUATION

19971111 Consideration of Economic and Social Council Report Concludes

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/DIS/3096

URGENT CONSIDERATION OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AT REGIONAL LEVEL CALLED FOR BY FIFTH COMMITTEE

19971111 Guiding Principles Sought from Conference on Disarmament; Texts Approved on Outer Space, Military Spending, Treaty Compliance

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SPD/119

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3059

DELAY IN CONVENING CONFERENCE ON IMMUNITIES OF STATES CALLED FOR IN LEGAL COMMITTEE

19971111 Speakers Cite Lack of Consensus on Draft Articles Adopted By International Law Commission on Immunities of States and Their Property

11 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2792

10 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2788/

BINDING TARGETS FOR GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION MUST BE ADOPTED IN KYOTO, JAPAN TELLS ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CORRECTION

19971110

In Press Release GA/EF/2788 of 7 November the first two sentences of the fourth paragraph in page 4, summarizing the statement of the representative of Turkey, BURAK OZUGERGIN, should read as follows:

10 November 1997

Press Release
AFR/26
POP/653

UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND OPENS AFRICA MEETING

19971110 HARARE, 10 November (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) opened its biennial regional meeting for Africa in Harare this morning.

The meeting, which comes three years after the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, is taking place at a critical time in the history of population development in Africa.