FIFTH COMMITTEE WARNED ABOUT TACTICS TO DESTROY INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE FROM WITHIN
Press Release
GA/AB/3102/
FIFTH COMMITTEE WARNED ABOUT TACTICS TO DESTROY INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE FROM WITHIN
19961031 CORRECTIONIn Press Release GA/AB/3102 issued today, the second full paragraph on page 18 should read:
JAMES JONAH (Sierra Leone) said he was pleased to return to the Fifth Committee, which was the most effective of the Assembly's Main Committees. He was particularly concerned that the financial constraints being experienced by the Organization were being used to "scuttle the international civil service". He was not interested in seeking the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations. He had renounced for all times any possibility of seeking that office and had done so out of respect for the current Secretary-General and his accomplishments. The Secretary-General should serve for a second term. As a retiree from the international civil service, he said he had concluded that someone had to stand up for that service and that could not be done while seeking the post of the Organization's Secretary-General.
The last sentence of the second paragraph on page 19 should read:
He had said at the time that if he were running a national intelligence service that would be the cheapest way to recruit intelligence officers.
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