Press Release

26 May 1999

Press Release
GA/COL/3000

SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE HOLDS FIRST MEETING FOLLOWING OPENING SESSION

19990526

(Received from UN Information Officer.)

26 May 1999

Press Release
DC/2645

25 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4510

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE HEARS INTRODUCTION OF DRAFT TEXT ON OUTCOME OF FIRST SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

19990525 According to Draft, Assembly Would Adopt Global Poverty-reduction Target To Reduce by Half Number Living in Extreme Poverty by 2015

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7004

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7003

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED WITH REPORTS OF FIGHTING BETWEEN INDIAN AND PAKISTANI TROOPS IN KASHMIR

19990525 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is concerned about report of a two-week long heavy exchange of fire between the Indian and Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in the Kargil and Drass sectors in Jammu and Kashmir.

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7002
CA/20

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN SUPPORTING PEACE PROCESSES IN CENTRAL AMERICA FOR DECADES

19990525 Says UN Well-Placed To Help with Unfinished Political and Human Rights Agenda of Peace Process and Reconstruction Following Hurricane Mitch

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7001
OBV/95

IN MESSAGE ON OCCASION OF WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL JOINS CALL TO SMOKERS EVERYWHERE TO 'LEAVE THE PACK BEHIND'

19990525 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day:

25 May 1999

Press Release
POP/727

25 May 1999

Press Release
GA/COL/2999

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE BEGINS CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

19990525 Independence 'Categorical Imperative,' States Saint Lucia's Foreign Minister; Committee Chairman Says Remaining Territories Ignored in Rush to Globalization

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

25 May 1999

Press Release
GA/AB/3298

THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRUPTION IN PEACEKEEPING PROCUREMENT MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, UNITED STATES TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE

19990525 Committee Concludes Discussion of Financing Peacekeeping In Angola, Central African Republic, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia