* Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urges world leaders to give the United Nations a firm financial base.
* General Assembly President says supporting the UN should be a collective pledge of the special session.
Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement on the occasion of the hoisting of the flag of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at Headquarters on Saturday, 21 October:
Few images command so great a sense of collective strength and solidarity than the flags that line the United Nations. Today we are proud to have that of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to be one among them. It makes eloquent an association that began on 8 April 1993, when this new yet ancient country joined the United Nations.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali met with the following heads of State or Government on Saturday, 21 October;
9:30 a.m. President of Uganda, Youeri Kaguta Museveni;
10:45 a.m. President of Sierra Leona, Valentine E.M. Strasser
11 a.m. President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
11:30 a.m. President of Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo
11:45 a.m. President of Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoon
12:05 p.m. President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliev
3:05 p.m. President of Moldova, Mircea Snegur
The challenge of peacefully resolving new kinds of conflicts should inspire the United Nations as it faced the new millennium, the General Assembly was told this afternoon as it continued its commemorative meeting on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary.
These are the remarks of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at a diner given by Mayor Rudolph Guiliani of New York City for heads of State and government at the World Trade Centre on 21 October:
I am here to pay tribute to New York City, the home of the United Nations.
And I salute New York City's welcome to the heads of State and government who have come form all over the world for this fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.
These are the remarks of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali today when accepting a gift to the United Nations from the Republic of Estonia:
On behalf of the United Nations, I wish to thank the Government and people of the Republic of Estonia for this wonderful example of Estonian decorative folk art.
This work is entitled "Mother Tree". It is the work of the distinguished artist Anu Raud, a poetess of Estonian folk weaving. It beautifully, eloquently, and powerfully expresses the national identify of the Estonian people.
Following is the text of the toast delivered by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at the luncheon for heads of State and government held at Headquarters on 22 October:
I am grateful to heads of State and government for coming here to mark the first fifty years of the United Nations. The United Nations deserves the honour you show it by your presence. This is because the United Nations is the Organization that works for tomorrow.
