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UN Commission on Population and Development
Resumed Session of the ICPD+5 PrepCom
24 - 29 June 1999
Twenty-first Special Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGASS-21)
30 June - 2 July 1999
UN Headquarters, New York

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ADOPTED!! Plenary adopts text on key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development agreed on by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the 21st Special Session of the General Assembly . . . .

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See below for Images and RealAudio of:

the Closing Plenary (RealAudio of Chair Chowdhury's report on the outcome of the COW to the GA)
UNFPA press conference (RealAudio of comments from Chair Chowdhury and Dr. Nafis Sadik)
US press conferences (RealAudio of comments from Frank Loy, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Margaret Pollack and Peggy Curlin, CEDPA
DPI noon briefing with Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS

	*Scenes from the Closing Plenary* Chair Anwarul Karim Chowdhury reports on the outcome of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole (left) Argentina makes a reservation
	President of the Special Session and of the General Assembly, Dider Opertti, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay and President of the GA's 53rd regular session and the Special Session (middle) The US makes a general statement

Press Conference on the conclusions of the work of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole with Dr. Nafis Sadik, UNFPA Executive Secretary, PrepCom Chair Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (Bangladesh) and Joseph Chamie, Director of the UN DESA Population Division

Dr. Nafis Sadik said developing countries have fulfilled two-thirds of the financial commitment they made in Cairo, while donor countries have have only fulfilled one-third of the $5.7 billion they committed to provide

Joseph Chamie, Dr. Sadik and Ambassador Chowdhury and Stirling Scruggs, Director of Information and External Relations, UNFPA

PrepCom Chair Chowdhury said the consensus reached indicated that the international community continues to be committed to the area of population, and commented on the intensity of the negotiations and the transparency in which they took place

Joeseph Chamie, Director of the UN DESA Population Division, said that population issues for the UN is a success story

US Press Conference

Magaret Pollack, Director, Office of Population, United States Department of State and head of the US delegation to the PrepCom, said the actions agreed upon include new 5 year benchmarks to better evaluate progress on programmes

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney discussed introduction of the Safe Motherhood Act to Congress. She said that since Cairo, countries around the world have reevaluated their laws on female genital mutilation

Frank Loy, US Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, said Cairo is working and that way population programmes are being conceived of and implemented has changed

Peggy Curlin, President of the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), gives an NGO perspective of Cario

DPI noon briefing

Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) comments on including actions related to AIDS in the text, a subject that was barely touched upon at Cairo

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