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General Debate continued today with the President presiding; NGO Committee for the Status of Women
12 November 2001

General Debate continued today with Dr. Han presiding. The statements were made from Nauru, Kenya, Malta, Turkey, Germany, Belize, Senegal, Iceland, Austria, Jordan, Cape Verde, Niger, Mali and United Arab Emirates in the morning.

Dr. Han attended a reception and luncheon hosted by the NGO Committee for the Status of Women.  Dr. Han said “The United Nations has placed itself at the forefront of promoting gender equality. The Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing and the Beijing+5 conference are major milestones in this regard. In achieving the goals set out in the Beijing Platform for Action, I want to underscore the importance of forging partnerships between the UN and Member States, on the one hand, and civil society, on the other. In the 21st century, such partnerships will become an increasingly important instrument of social and economic progress – surely not least in the struggle for gender equality.  The NGOs represented on your Committee provide an excellent example of what can be achieved when governments, international bodies, and civil society groups work in harmony toward common goals. “

Dr. Han presided over General Debate in the afternoon. The statements were made from Albania, Suriname, Poland, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Morocco, Belarus, Ireland, Maldives, Spain, Tunisia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bangladesh.

Today, Dr. Han received courtesy calls by the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity, H. E. Mr. Amara Essy, the Foreign Minister of Paraguay, and H. E. Mr. Jose Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli, the Foreign Minister of Tunisia, H. E. Mr. Habib Ben Yahia, the Foreign Minister of Austria, H. E. Ms. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, H. E. Dr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz, the Foreign Minister of Italy, H. E. Mr. Renato Ruggiero, the Foreign Minister of New Zealand, H. E. Mr. Phil Goff, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Sudan, H. E. Mr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Hungary, Mr. Janos Martonyi, and the Foreign Minister of Canada, H. E. Mr. John Manley.
 

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