General Assembly: No name

17 November 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3193

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SPD/121

ASSEMBLY WOULD ENDORSE RECOMMENDATIONS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING, BY FOURTH COMMITTEE DRAFT

19971114 Committee Concludes Review of Peacekeeping Operations

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SPD/118/

UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING REMAINS CRUCIAL, IN VIEW OF EFFECTS OF CONFLICTS ON NEIGHBOURING STATES, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19971114 CORRECTION

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3448

THIRD COMMITTEE, ACTING ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, SEEKS ASSEMBLY APPEAL FOR OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COVENANTS

19971114 Texts Against Mercenary Activity, Supporting UNHCR, on Conditions of Rural Women and Migrant Workers, Decade against Racism also Approved

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3447

HIGH COMMISSIONER TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE OF RENEWED ENDEAVOUR FOR GLOBAL OBSERVANCE OF WIDE RANGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

19971114 Dialogue with Mary Robinson Covers Many Areas of Concern; Right to Development, Interests of Women and Children Prominent

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3063

NEED TO COMBAT ROOT CAUSES OF TERRORISM STRESSED BY SPEAKERS IN LEGAL COMMITTEE

19971114

Efforts to combat terrorism should include attempts to understand and eliminate its causes, speakers told the Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon, as it concluded its debate on measures to eliminate international terrorism. The Committee had before it a draft convention on suppression of terrorist bombings.

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3062

LEGAL COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT EXTENDING COMPETENCE OF UN ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL TO STAFF OF REGISTRY OF WORLD COURT

19971114 Debate on Measures to Eliminate Terrorism Continues

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/DIS/3100

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ACCORDED HIGHEST PRIORITY BY FIRST COMMITTEE TEXT

19971114 Other Drafts Concern Small Arms, Transparency, Special Session, Asia-Pacific Disarmament Centre

14 November 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3192

INTERNAL OVERSIGHT OFFICE DOES NOT TRANSGRESS ITS MANDATE, FIFTH COMMITTEE INFORMED

19971114

Anyone who charged the Office of Internal Oversight Services with going beyond its mandate would be challenged because the Office never attempted to transgress the terms of the General Assembly resolution establishing it, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this morning as it concluded considering the work of that Office.

13 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3446

EUROPEAN UNION'S VIEW ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN VARIOUS STATES CONTESTED THIS AFTERNOON IN THIRD COMMITTEE

19971113 Eight Countries Mentioned in Earlier Statement On Behalf of European Union Exercise Right of Reply