Press Release

25 June 1999

Press Release
SOC/NAR/804

UNDCP SIGNS DRUG CONTROL AGREEMENT WITH IRAN, OPENS NEW COUNTRY OFFICE

19990625

VIENNA, 25 June (UN Information Service) -- A $13 million programme that should greatly increase Iran's ability to control illicit drugs will be officially launched by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in Tehran on 26 June, the International Day against Illicit Drug Abuse and Trafficking.

25 June 1999

Press Release
SG/T/2186

25 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7048

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ADDRESS TO WORLD CONGRESS OF RUSSIAN MEDIA PRAISES ITS COURAGE, INDEPENDENCE DURING RUSSIA'S TRANSITION

19990625 Following is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Congress of the Russian Media, delivered in Moscow on 22 June:

25 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7047
OBV/104

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS BY IDENTIFYING COMMON INTERESTS AND UNITING THEM WITH SHARED VALUES, PEOPLE CAN MAKE DIFFERENCE FOR BETTER

19990625 Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of United Nations International Day of Cooperatives, which will be observed on 3 July:

25 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7046

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT ESCALATION IN ISRAELI-LEBANON SECTOR

19990625 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

25 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7045

ADDRESSING GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF AIDS, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES THAT WALL OF SILENCE AND PREJUDICE SURROUNDING DISEASE MUST BE TORN DOWN

19990625 Kofi Annan Notes Devastating Effect of AIDS on Africa; Challenges Business To Take Measures to Combat Disease; Summarizes UN-System AIDS-Related Initiatives

25 June 1999

Press Release
SC/6693

SECURITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY THAT REPUBLIC OF NAURU BE ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP IN UNITED NATIONS

19990625

The Security Council this afternoon recommended to the General Assembly that the Republic of Nauru be admitted to membership in the United Nations.

25 June 1999

Press Release
SC/6692

SECURITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY THAT REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI BE ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP OF UNITED NATIONS

19990625

The Security Council this afternoon recommended to the General Assembly that the Republic of Kiribati be admitted to membership of the United Nations. That admission would bring to 186 the Organization's total membership.

25 June 1999

Press Release
POP/730

25 June 1999

Press Release
IK/278

GOVERNING COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION CONCLUDES TWENTY-SECOND SESSION, APPROVES COMPENSATION AWARDS

19990625 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 24 June (UN Information Service) -- The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission concluded its thirty-second session today under the Presidency of Ambassador Hans Heinemann of the Netherlands.