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Press Conference for World Assembly on Ageing

27 March 2002

Within the next 50 years, in the greatest demographic change ever seen, the number of people over 60 years of age will outnumber the people under 15, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Nitin Desai (left), said this afternoon, as he briefed correspondents on the Second World Assembly on Ageing, which will take place from 8 to 12 April in Madrid, Spain.
Also participating in the press conference at Headquarters were Milos Alcalay of Venezuela, representing the ""Group of 77"" developing countries and China, and Odile Frank, Chief, Social Integration Branch Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Paul Hoeffel, Spokesman for the World Assembly, was moderator.

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