Russia, Costa Rica want to keep on smoking at UN

DeathvadeR

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Tue Sep-30-03 06:12 PM
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Russia, Costa Rica want to keep on smoking at UN

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke too soon in trying to ban smoking from U.N. headquarters with several fuming diplomats on Tuesday trying to find ways around the prohibition.

At a meeting of the General Assembly's committee on budget and administration, several delegates, led by Costa Rica and Russia, questioned the legal basis for Annan to put out such an order without a vote from member states.

In the end, the panel, which includes all 191 U.N. members, decided to ask Annan to explain the legal basis for his decision before taking any further action

<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30342868.htm>

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Maple

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Tue Sep-30-03 06:28 PM
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1. Tough

Butt out.

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oneighty

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Tue Sep-30-03 06:33 PM
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2. There is humor here

someplace.

180

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Voltaire99

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Wed Oct-01-03 01:30 AM
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3. Big deal

Establish isolated smoking rooms, then. Let us remember it's the United Nations - the noun implying the dazzling variety of this planet - and not merely another American anti-smoking context.

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