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Press Release

HR/4379

WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS TO HOLD SIXTEENTH SESSION, 27 - 31 JULY, GENEVA

22 July 1998


Press Release
HR/4379


WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS TO HOLD SIXTEENTH SESSION, 27 - 31 JULY, GENEVA

19980722

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 22 July (UN Information Service) -- The Working Group on Indigenous Populations will hold its sixteenth annual session from 27 to 31 July and will focus this year on issues related to indigenous education and language.

ECOSOC/5787

MAINSTREAMING OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN WORK OF UN SYSTEM, RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT AMONG ISSUES RAISED AT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

22 July 1998


Press Release
ECOSOC/5787


MAINSTREAMING OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN WORK OF UN SYSTEM, RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT AMONG ISSUES RAISED AT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19980722

The mainstreaming of human rights in the work of the United Nations system could result in the overlapping of mandates, the representative of Malaysia told the Economic and Social Council this morning, as it concluded consideration of follow-up to the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.

SG/SM/6648

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONSIDERS AWARD FROM GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT AS TRIBUTE TO THOSE COMMITTED TO PEACE

21 July 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6648
CA/16


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONSIDERS AWARD FROM GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT AS TRIBUTE TO THOSE COMMITTED TO PEACE

19980721 Following is the text of the statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon receiving the "Orden del Quetzal", the highest honour the Government of Guatemala could bestow on a civilian, in Guatemala City on Monday, 20 July:

I am deeply honoured to receive the "Orden del Quetzal".