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Press Release

GA/AB/3134

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE BEGINS RESUMED SESSION

10 March 1997


Press Release
GA/AB/3134


ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY COMMITTEE BEGINS RESUMED SESSION

19970310

As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) began its resumed session this morning, the representative of the United States said he would hold consultations with other Member States on a proposal to enlarge the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ).

SG/SM/6179

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO GIVE REAL MEANING TO IDEALS OF WOMEN'S EQUALITY AND PARTICIPATION

10 March 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6179
WOM/957


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO GIVE REAL MEANING TO IDEALS OF WOMEN'S EQUALITY AND PARTICIPATION

19970310 Addressing Status of Women Commission, Kofi Annan Says Women's Programmes Will Be Protected in UN Reform Process

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening meeting of the forty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women at Headquarters this morning;

SOC/4424

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIFTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

7 March 1997


Press Release
SOC/4424


SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIFTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

19970307

Concluding its thirty-fifth session yesterday night, 6 March, the Commission for Social Development called on countries and the international community to reinstate the attainment of full, productive and freely chosen employment as a central objective of economic and social policies.