NO REQUEST BY SECRETARY-GENERAL TO POSTPONE DRAFT ON NIGERIA

30 November 1995

Press Release
SG/SM/5828

NO REQUEST BY SECRETARY-GENERAL TO POSTPONE DRAFT ON NIGERIA

19951130 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

It has been brought to our attention that the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations is distributing a letter which alleges that the Secretary- General has requested the sponsors of a draft resolution on Nigeria, to postpone the tabling of the draft resolution in the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), until the outcome of his initiative on the matter. I would like to categorically state that the Secretary-General has not made, and is not planning to make, such a request.

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