General Assembly

9 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9193

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SEEKS MAXIMUM SUPPORT FOR LAW OF SEA CONVENTION; NON-SIGNATORY STATES ASKED TO JOIN

19961209

Other Texts Express Concern at Over-Fishing; Violations Of Global Moratorium on Use of Large-Scale Drift-Nets on High Seas

9 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9192

SEABED AUTHORITY, INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR LAW OF THE SEA CONSTITUTED IN 1996, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

19961209 Establishment in 1997 of Commission on Limits of Continental Shelf Will Complete Process Envisioned by Law of Sea Convention

9 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9191

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3123

FIFTH COMMITTEE ALLOCATES $242 MILLION TO PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FOR FIRST HALF OF 1997

19961206

The General Assembly would appropriate and apportion almost $242 million gross to maintain three peace-keeping missions in the former Yugoslavia for the first half of 1997, if it adopts three draft resolutions approved without a vote this morning by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9190

STATEMENT BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

19961206 Following is the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia) to commemorate the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 6 December 1996:

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9189

CONCRETE MEASURES AND 'RENEWED SENSE OF OUTRAGE' NEEDED TO END TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY

19961206 Assembly Observes International Day for Abolition of Slavery, Adopts Texts on New And Restored Democracies, New Agenda for Africa

5 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9188

AID SOUGHT FOR LEBANON, THREE AFRICAN NATIONS, COUNTRIES HARMED BY COUNCIL SANCTIONS ON FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

19961205 Assembly Adopts Five Texts; President, in Statement, Urges Procedures to Allow Current Session to Complete Work on Schedule

Factions in the Liberian conflict and their leaders were urged by the General Assembly this afternoon to cease all hostilities and disarm their combatants according to the agreed timetable.

5 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9187
PAL/1837

5 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9186
PAL/1836

FAILURE TO ADDRESS SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEEDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES STRENGTHENS ANTI-PEACE FORCES, ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TELLS UNRWA PLEDGING CONFERENCE

19961205 This is the text of a statement today by the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia), at the pledging conference for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):

5 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9185

NEED FOR IMPROVED EFFORTS TO REMOVE ANTI-PERSONNEL LAND-MINES STRESSED THIS MORNING IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961205

Continued Existence of Some 110 Million Unexploded Mines Worldwide Described as "The War That Never Ends"