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23rd October, 1997
COMPREHENSIVE TEST-BAN TREATY WILL ENCOURAGE GREATER NUCLEAR ARSENAL CUTS, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF PREPARATORY COMMISSION TELLS FIRST COMMITTEE
Describes Progress in Setting Up International Monitoring System; Iran Says Shortcomings in Treaty Cast Shadow Over Comprehensiveness The Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive-Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) -- responsible for setting up the Treaty's global verification regime -- told...
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23rd October, 1997
UNCTAD'S TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND ASSEMBLY'S ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE HOLD JOINT MEETING THROUGH LIVE VIDEO HOOK-UP
UNCTAD's Secretary-General Says Event Demonstrates How Modern Technology Can Serve International Cooperation Electronic commerce has the potential of restructuring the world economy, the Minister for Trade and Industry of South Africa, Alec Erwin, said this morning as he addressed a joint videoconference meeting of the high-level...
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23rd October, 1997
DEADLOCK MUST BE BROKEN BETWEEN NUMEROUS MANDATES, LIMITED FINANCING, DIRECTOR OF NEW DRUG OFFICE TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE
Describes Need for Resources, Attempt to Reduce Reliance on Regular Budget; Other Speakers Address Special Session, Threat of International Drug Cartels The Executive Director of the newly established Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this afternoon that one...
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22nd October, 1997
SPEAKERS IN THIRD COMMITTEE STRESS NEED FOR ACTION TO ADDRESS 'EMERGING ISSUE' OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS
Violence against migrant workers should be condemned as highly objectionable and measures put in place to deal with it, the representative of Singapore said this morning, as the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) continued its consideration of issues relating to the advancement of women. While there was much common...
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22nd October, 1997
SPEAKERS IN SECOND COMMITTEE CONDEMN ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN PALESTINIAN AND OTHER ARAB TERRITORIES
Israel's Representative Says Establishment of Settlements Not Intended to Displace Palestinian Inhabitants, and in Practice Had Not Done So The continued building of Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories was condemned by speakers this afternoon as the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) met to discuss the economic...
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22nd October, 1997
THIRD COMMITTEE IS TOLD STILL TOO FEW WOMEN OCCUPY SENIOR POSITIONS IN UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT
In Debate on Beijing Conference Implementation, Delegates Call for Gender Equality in World Organization and at National Level The representation of women at the levels of Director and above in the United Nations Secretariat remained low and the overall representation of women from developing countries unacceptable, the Third Committee...
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22nd October, 1997
RISKS OF MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION HIGHLIGHTED IN FIRST COMMITTEE
Israel Says True Risk of Proliferation Stems from Iran, Iraq; Other Speakers Cite Israel's Failure to Sign NPT, Abide by IAEA Safeguards Allegations about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East were highlighted this morning in the First Committee (Disarmament and International...
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22nd October, 1997
MOZAMBIQUE PRESIDENT URGES CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL AID TO CONSOLIDATE ECONOMIC PROGRESS, EMERGING DEMOCRACY
Assembly Address Notes Global Investment, Remaining Challenges; Texts Adopted on Stronger Links between United Nations, Regional Groups In an address to the General Assembly this morning, the President of Mozambique, Joaquim Alberto Chissano, said the United Nations and the international community had invested much to ensure a lasting...
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22nd October, 1997
WORLD MUST REAP BENEFITS OF GLOBALIZATION WITHOUT ERODING CULTURAL DIVERSITY, REPUBLIC OF KOREA TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE
Coordinator of World Decade for Cultural Development Also Speaks; New Code of Global Ethics, Qualitative Dimensions of Growth Discussed The international community must determine how to reap the benefits of globalization without eroding the creative advantages of cultural diversity, the representative of the Republic of Korea told...
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21st October, 1997
CRUCIAL ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM IN ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN STRESSED IN THIRD COMMITTEE
The United Nations had played a crucial role in the process of fully integrating women in political, social and economic life and in incorporating a gender perspective in all areas of human activity, the representative of Brazil said this afternoon, as the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) continued its consideration...
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