Press Release

3 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/973

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TO HOLD SEVENTEENTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS, 7 - 25 JULY

19970703 Background Release To Consider Reports of Namibia, Armenia, Luxembourg, Israel, Italy, Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bangladesh

2 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5704

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL DEBATES BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF GLOBALIZATION OF WORLD ECONOMY

19970702 Countries and Heads of United Nations Financial And Trade Institutions Discuss Fostering Enabling Environment for Development

(Reissued as received.)

2 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5702

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL REVIEWS OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR FOSTERING DEVELOPMENT

19970702 'Tragic Decline' in Development Funding Lamented

(Reissued as received.)

2 July 1997

Press Release
SG/2036

2 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5705

DANGERS, LIABILITIES OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC TRENDS DISCUSSED BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19970702 Countries, in Policy Dialogue with Chiefs Of Financial Institutions, Seek Assurances in Face of Stiffening Competition

(Reissued as received.)

2 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5703

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT

19970702 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 1 July (UN Information Service) -- As the Economic and Social Council concluded this afternoon its discussion of operational activities for development of the United Nations system, speakers drew attention to a decline in "core" resources for development and proposed reforms of the system.

2 July 1997

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SG/A/641
DC/2587

2 July 1997

Press Release
HQ/577

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE INFORMS HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE OF EFFORTS BY HIS GOVERNMENT TO DEVISE NEW PROGRAMME FOR DIPLOMATIC PARKING

19970702 Travel Restriction Matters, Including Denial of Visa, Among Issues Addressed by Representatives of Cuba, Russian Federation and Iraq

1 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5700

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OPENS 1997 SESSION; PRESIDENT CALLS FOR 'GENUINE DIALOGUE'

19970701 Holds Panel Discussion with Agency Heads On 'Operational Activities for International Development and Cooperation'

(Reissued as received.)

1 July 1997

Press Release
DCF/306

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE SEARCHES FOR AGREEMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF PANEL ON 'NEGATIVE SECURITY ASSURANCES'

19970701 (Delayed in transmission; reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 June (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament, despite appeals from a number of developing countries, was unable to reach consensus this morning on establishment of an ad hoc committee on "negative security assurances" to non-nuclear-weapons States.