News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 68

LIMA, Nov 17 (IPS) - Peru's foreign creditors should not punish the South American nation for its economic adjustment programme's success, Economic Minister Jorge Camet said Thursday.

ROME, Nov 17 (IPS) - A United Nations Ministerial Conference on the problem of organised crime running major firms that do trillions of dollars worth of business throughout the world will be held in Italy, with the participation of 140 countries.

ROME, Nov 17 (IPS) - South America's grain production will be higher than last year's yet insufficent for the 1994-95 deand, according to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) forecasts released Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) - Russia's ambassador to the United Nations asserted Thursday that all U.N. peacekeeping missions must have clearly-defined end dates and more equal funding burdens than they currently have.

MEXICO CITY, Nov 17 (IPS) - Mexico's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 4.5 percent higher in the third quarter of this year than in the same period of 1993, according to a Finance Ministry report released Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) - The United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution Thursday calling for international aid to support reconstruction in Nicaragua.

JAKARTA, Nov 17 (IPS) - The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has put a two-year moratorium on new entrants for two years, but Latin America is poised to have a larger presence in the Pacific Rim grouping.

HONG KONG, Nov 17 (IPS) - Hong Kong's handover to China is still three years away, but television broadcasters based in the British colony are already rushing to please Beijing.

JAKARTA, Nov 17 (IPS) - The issue of East Timor was not supposed to rear its head this week, at least not while Indonesia was playing host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings and to foreign leaders on state visits here.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 17 (IPS) - Haiti's reputation as an environmental disaster zone - a barren, depressing landscape with vast areas of land left unused - was reinforced last weekend by the ravaging winds of Tropical Storm Gordon.