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PI/1236

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION/NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION BRIEFING TO FOCUS ON SECRETARY-GENERAL"S MILLENNIUM REPORT, MILLENNIUM EVENTS

4 April 2000


Press Release
PI/1236


DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION/NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION BRIEFING TO FOCUS ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MILLENNIUM REPORT, MILLENNIUM EVENTS

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The Department of Public Information (DPI) will conduct a live videoconference on the just-released Report of the Secretary-General to the Millennium Summit and on the preparations for the Millennium Forum on Thursday, 6 April, in Conference Room 3, from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

PI/1234

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL SESSION TO EXPLORE NEW SOLUTIONS TO OLD PROBLEMS

3 April 2000


Press Release
PI/1234
SOC/4538


PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL SESSION TO EXPLORE NEW SOLUTIONS TO OLD PROBLEMS

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After finding that globalization has not provided a windfall in benefits to most people and that most of the social development goals of the 1995 Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development have not been achieved, delegates are preparing to negotiate new strategies that will help people attain a better standard of living.

PI/1233

UNITED NATIONS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WORKING GROUP CONCLUDES FIRST MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS

31 March 2000


Press Release
PI/1233


UNITED NATIONS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WORKING GROUP CONCLUDES FIRST MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS

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The newly formed United Nations Geographic Information Working Group concluded its first meeting on collaboration in the fields of cartography and geographic information science at Headquarters on 30 March 2000.

PI/1232

INTER-AGENCY MEETTING ON "CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCES" TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS FROM 28-30 MARCH

27 March 2000


Press Release
PI/1232


INTER-AGENCY MEETTING ON ‘CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCES’ TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS FROM 28-30 MARCH

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The United Nations Cartographic Section will hold a historic inter-agency meeting -- "Cartography and Geographic Information Science" -- at Headquarters from 28 to 30 March with a view to creating a common organizational geographic database.