DELEGATES WARN AGAINST INFLEXIBLE POSITIONS IN DOHA TRADE NEGOTIATIONS,

AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

Oxford University Professor Delivers

Keynote Address on Theme of ‘Development and Conflict’

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Background

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) met this morning to hear a keynote address by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University and member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, as well as to continue its general debate.

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Questions and Answers

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SHAHID HUSAIN, Senior Adviser to the Â鶹APP of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said that issues of common concern among OIC members included commodities, external debt and international financing; sustainable development and international economic cooperation; environmental concerns; migration; operational activities for development, particularly South-South cooperation; and permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.

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Document Type: Press Release
Document Sources: General Assembly, General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial), Â鶹APP Department of Public Information (DPI)
Subject: Economic issues, Golan Heights, Situation in the OPT including Jerusalem, Water
Publication Date: 05/10/2004