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GA/9298
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SG/SM/6330
SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES SHOCK AND SADNESS OVER NEWS OF UN HELICOPTER CRASH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
19970917 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
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GA/9299
GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 156 ITEMS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA, WILL MEET TO CONSIDER THREE REMAINING ITEMS
19970917 Approves New Items on Administrative Tribunal, Negotiating Principles; Item on Taiwan, Republic of China, Not Recommended, After 47-Speaker DebateThe fifty-second General Assembly could be "a watershed session" in which Member States would have the chance to revitalize the United Nations and enable it to address the mounting challenges it faced, its newly-elected President, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine), said at the opening meeting this afternoon.
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GA/COL/2973*
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION CONCLUDES 1997 SESSION
19970916Administering Powers were urged to take effective measures to safeguard and guarantee the inalienable right of the peoples in Territories under their administration to their natural resources, by the terms of one of three proposals approved by the Special Committee on decolonization this morning, as it concluded its work for the year.
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GA/9296
PI/1035
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GA/SM/1
CURRENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION CAN MARK BEGINNING OF NEW ERA IN UNITED NATIONS HISTORY, PRESIDENT TELLS OPENING MEETING
19970916 Says Members Have Chance to Revitalize World Body To Meet Mounting Challenges, 'Reunite the United Nations'Following is the text of the inaugural address given today by Hennadiy Udovenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as President of the fifty- second session of the General Assembly:
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GA/9297
CURRENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION CAN MARK BEGINNING OF NEW ERA IN UNITED NATIONS HISTORY, PRESIDENT TELLS OPENING MEETING
19970916 Says Members Have Chance to Revitalize World Body To Meet Mounting Challenges, 'Reunite the United Nations'Following is the text of the inaugural address given today by Hennadiy Udovenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as President of the fifty- second session of the General Assembly: