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Assembly Sets up Machinery to Deal with Global Environmental Problems, Asks Israeli Practices Committee to Continue Its Work

12/15/1972 23:45:47

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Assembly Begins Debate on Situation in Middle East

11/29/1972 00:03:19

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General Assembly Adopts Resolutions on Terrorism, Sea-Bed, Namibia Decolonization, Human Rights and Other Matters

12/18/1972 10:27:41

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Pakistan's Delegate Addresses General Assembly

10/09/1972 13:19:45

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Five Statements Heard in Assembly’s Continuing General Debate

10/05/1972 23:56:57

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General Committee Begins Consideration of Assembly Agenda, Recommends 33 Items

09/20/1972 12:32:03

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Acting Permanent Representative of Greece Meets with President of General Assembly

12/05/1972 10:27:41

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Six Further Statements Heard in Assembly’s Continuing General Debate

10/04/1972 00:06:51

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General Assembly Hears Six Statements in Continuing General Debate

09/28/1972 10:27:41

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General Assembly Hears Six Statements in Continuing General Debates

09/28/1972 10:27:41

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President Salvador Allende of Chile Pays an Official Visit to UN Headquarters

12/04/1972 00:02:35

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Fourth Committee Receives 46-Power Draft Resolution Proposing Negotiations between Portugal and National Liberation Movements in Territories

11/10/1972 23:47:14

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Statements by Burundi, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, Dahomey and Malta Heard in General Assembly’s Continuing General Debate

10/10/1972 00:07:05

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General Assembly Hears Statements by Swaziland, Tunisia, Sudan and Morocco in General Debate

10/06/1972 00:08:03

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General Assembly Begins General Debate of Twenty-Seventh Session

09/25/1972 17:48:16

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Statements by Paraguay, Hungary, Sweden and Egypt Heard as Assembly’s General Debate Nears End

10/11/1972 00:09:04

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General Assembly Hears Views of Argentina, United Republic of Tanzania, Mongolia, United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Qatar

09/27/1972 23:55:56

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General Committee Considers Assembly Agenda

09/20/1972 17:44:48

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General Assembly Hears Views of Argentina, United Republic of Tanzania, Mongolia, United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Qatar

09/27/1972 23:55:32

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General Assembly hears statements by Afghanistan, Singapore, Ireland, Fiji and Sierra Leone in the General debate.

10/10/1972 00:10:01

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Headline Assembly Sets up Machinery to Deal with Global Environmental Problems, Asks Israeli Practices Committee to Continue Its Work

Caption Description The General Assembly this afternoon took action to deal with the global problems of the human environment, establishing permanent U.N. organs and a new environment secretariat, to be located in Nairobi, Kenya, with Maurice F. Strong as its Executive Director. On other matters, the Assembly asked the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories to continue its work.
Assembly President Stanislaw Trepczynski (Poland) drawing lots for the selection, among the elected members of the Governing Council for Environmental Programmes, of those to serve for three years, two years and one year. Holding the ballot box is Bradford Morse, Under-Secretary-General for Political and General Assembly Affairs. At left is Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.

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NICA ID 243766

Production Date 12/15/1972 11:45:57 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

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