Press Release

8 June 1998

Press Release
GA/SM/45

PRESIDENT OF ASSEMBLY'S SESSION ON DRUG PROBLEM STRESSES ENORMOUS COMPLEXITY OF ISSUE THAT CANNOT BE WISHED AWAY BY GOOD INTENTIONS

19980608 Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine) Notes Diminished Ideological Divide Provides for Cooperation between Producing and Consuming Nations

Following are the opening remarks of the President of the twentieth special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem, on 8 June:

8 June 1998

Press Release
GA/9415

NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO COMBAT DRUG PROBLEM, FOR STRONG FAMILY UNITS, FOR PROMOTING SELF-ESTEEM OF YOUNG PEOPLE STRESSED BY SPEAKERS

19980608 General Debate of Assembly's Special Session on Drug Problem Continues

8 June 1998

Press Release
GA/9414

AD HOC COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS FOR ADOPTION BY ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION TO COUNTER WORLD DRUG PROBLEM

19980608 Draft Texts Contain Political Declaration, Guiding Principles Of Drug Demand Reduction, Measures for International Cooperation

8 June 1998

Press Release
GA/9413

ASSEMBLY'S SPECIAL SESSION HEARS CALLS FOR CREATION OF WORLD FUND FOR FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS WITH MONEY OBTAINED FROM SEIZURES OF CRIMINAL PROFITS

19980608 Several Speakers Stress Relationship Between Drug Trafficking, Arms Trading and Armed Conflict

8 June 1998

Press Release
GA/9411

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ALL NATIONS TO SAY 'YES' TO CHALLENGE OF WORKING TOWARDS DRUG-FREE WORLD

19980608

The twentieth special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem, attended by heads of State and government, opened this morning with a plea by the Secretary-General for all nations to say "yes" to the challenge of working towards a drug-free world.

8 June 1998

Press Release
DSG/SM/9
AFR/71

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS AND ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY

19980608 Following is the text of the statement by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the twenty-fourth Conference of the heads of State and government of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), in Ouagadougou today:

8 June 1998

Press Release

NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS NANE ANNAN TO PRESENT MERIT CERTIFICATES TO WINNERS

19980608 OF PAINTING COMPETITION

06/06/1998

Press Release SC/6528

Security Council

3890th Meeting (AM)

       SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS NUCLEAR TESTS BY INDIA AND PAKISTAN

           Resolution 1172 (1998) Unanimously Adopted; Pakistan Says

  It Had Been Left with No Choice but to Exercise Its Nuclear Option

5 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6584
AFR/70

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO ERITREA AND ETHIOPIA FOR IMMEDIATE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES

19980605 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

5 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6583

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTURBED BY INTENSIFYING CAMPAIGN AGAINST UNARMED, CIVILIAN POPULATION IN KOSOVO

19980605 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: