General Assembly: No name

7 October 1996

Press Release
GA/SPD/84

FOURTH COMMITTEE HEARS STATEMENTS ON SITUATIONS RELATING TO GUAM, GIBRALTAR, NEW CALEDONIA, WESTERN SAHARA

19961007

New Zealand Says United Nations Decolonization Efforts Should More Closely Address Needs of Small Territories and Current Realities

7 October 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3089

REDUCTION IN MINIMUM ASSESSMENT ON MEMBER STATES FOR UN BUDGET PROPOSED IN FIFTH COMMITTEE DEBATE

19961007 Costa Rica Says 'Floor Rate' Departs from Principle of Capacity to Pay; Committee Also Takes up Financing for Missions in Liberia, Western Sahara

7 October 1996

Press Release
GA/9119

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE MAIN CAUSE OF CONTINUING CONFLICT IN AFGHANISTAN, MINISTER TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961007

Peace Efforts in Africa Reviewed by Eritrea, Uganda, Gambia; Statements also Made by Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda

7 October 1996

Press Release
GA/9118

RENEWED INSTABILITY MIGHT PREVAIL IN MIDDLE EAST IF CURRENT TRENDS OVERSHADOW HOPE FOR PEACE, ASSEMBLY TOLD

19961007 Seven Foreign Ministers Address Assembly, As General Debate Continues

4 October 1996

Press Release
GA/L/3008

AGREED DEFINITION OF TERRORISM NEEDED TO PROMOTE COOPERATION ON ITS ELIMINATION, SIXTH COMMITTEE TOLD

19961004 Need to Balance State Sovereignty, Indidividual Rights Also Stressed by Speakers

4 October 1996

Press Release
GA/9117

REGIONAL PEACE-KEEPING EFFORTS NEED GLOBAL SUPPORT TO BE FULLY EFFECTIVE, GHANA AND ZAMBIA TELL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961004

Fiji Welcomes End of Nuclear Tests; Suriname Notes World Concern On Timber Project; Panama, Seychelles Also Speak in Continuing Debate

4 October 1996

Press Release
GA/9116

COMMITMENT TO FIGHT POVERTY NEEDED TO SECURE GLOBAL SECURITY, SAY SPEAKERS IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961004 Tanzania's President Says Those in Poverty Live in 'World of War'; Two Prime Ministers, Four Foreign Ministers, Also Address Assembly

3 October 1996

Press Release
GA/L/3007

ASSEMBLY WOULD DECLARE POSSIBLE LIMITS ON RIGHT OF ASYLUM FOR TERRORISTS, UNDER PROPOSAL BY UNITED KINGDOM

19961003 Declaration Would Aid in Interpreting 1951 Refugee Convention, Sixth Committee Told

3 October 1996

Press Release
GA/9115

REGIONAL STABILITY IS KEY TO GLOBAL PEACE AND SECURITY, FOREIGN MINISTERS TELL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961003 Problems in Afghanistan, Africa, Middle East Cited; Statements By Zaire, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Hungary, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Guinea

Regional stability was seen as a key to international peace and security by several speakers in this afternoon's continuation of the general debate in the General Assembly.

3 October 1996

Press Release
GA/9114

PAKISTAN'S PRIME MINISTER SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD ENDORSE CONFERENCE ON PEACE AND SECURITY IN SOUTH ASIA

19961003

Also Calls for Implementation of Resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir; President of Dominican Republic, Five Foreign Ministers Address Assembly