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GA/SHC/3438
6 November 1997


Press Release
GA/SHC/3438


SECRETARY-GENERAL WOULD BE ASKED TO CONSIDER LAUNCHING DECADE TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY, BY THIRD COMMITTEE TEXT

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The General Assembly would ask the Secretary-General, to consider ways to achieve the goal of education for all, including the feasibility of launching a United Nations decade to eradicate illiteracy, by the terms of a draft resolution approved this afternoon by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

GA/DIS/3092
5 November 1997


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GA/DIS/3092


FIVE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED IN DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE

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The General Assembly would reaffirm the urgent need to reach agreement on assurances to non-nuclear States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, according to one of five draft resolutions introduced this morning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security).