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Press Release

SOC/NAR/798

TAJIK PRESIDENT OPENS CRIME COMMISSION, SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR NEW DRUG CONTROL AGENCY

27 April 1999


Press Release
SOC/NAR/798


TAJIK PRESIDENT OPENS CRIME COMMISSION, SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR NEW DRUG CONTROL AGENCY

19990427

VIENNA, 27 April (UN Information Service) -- Tajik President Emomali Rakhmanov signed an agreement today with the Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Pino Arlacchi, to set up a new drug control agency in Tajikistan, which should greatly boost its fight against illicit drugs.

HR/CN/936

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES CHAIRPERSON'S STATEMENT ON COLOMBIA

27 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CN/936


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES CHAIRPERSON'S STATEMENT ON COLOMBIA

19990427 Adopts Texts on Occupied Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Slavery, Rights of Migrants, Minorities, Indigenous People, Among Others

(Reissued as received.)

HR/CN/935

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

27 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CN/935


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

19990427

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 26 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this evening adopted a host of resolutions aimed at alleviating abuses and human suffering in all corners of the globe.