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HR/CN/816

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION

18 March 1998


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HR/CN/816


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION

19980318 Secretary-General Warns That Human Rights Violations Remain 'Widespread Reality'

(Reproduced as received.)

SG/SM/6492

HUMAN RIGHTS 'MUST BE PURSUED TO THE VERY END', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT GENEVA FORUM

17 March 1998


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SG/SM/6492
HR/4356


HUMAN RIGHTS 'MUST BE PURSUED TO THE VERY END', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT GENEVA FORUM

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement delivered at the opening of the Forum on Mainstreaming Human Rights in the United Nations in Geneva on Monday, 16 March:

SG/SM/6491

MALIAN EXPERIENCE POINTS TO VIRTUES OF PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY AND CLOSE COORDINATION WITHIN UN SYSTEM, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

17 March 1998


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SG/SM/6491
AFR/46


MALIAN EXPERIENCE POINTS TO VIRTUES OF PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY AND CLOSE COORDINATION WITHIN UN SYSTEM, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement delivered in Geneva today at the ceremony to launch the publication by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) of the book A Peace of Timbuktu: Democratic Governance, Development and African Peacemaking:

SG/SM/6489

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PERSISTENCE OF CONFLICTS SINCE FALL OF BERLIN WALL NECESSITATES REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT MECHANISMS

17 March 1998


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SG/SM/6489
DC/2598


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PERSISTENCE OF CONFLICTS SINCE FALL OF BERLIN WALL NECESSITATES REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT MECHANISMS

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement, delivered today at the thirtieth session of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in Geneva:

SG/SM/6488/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, THANKS STAFF FOR SUPPORT

17 March 1998


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SG/SM/6488/Rev.1*


SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, THANKS STAFF FOR SUPPORT

19980317 The following statement was made this morning by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon arrival at the Palais des Nations, where he was met by a large gathering of the staff of the United Nations Office at Geneva:

Good morning my friends. This is a real homecoming.

SG/SM/6488

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, THANKS STAFF FOR SUPPORT

17 March 1998


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SG/SM/6488


SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, THANKS STAFF FOR SUPPORT

19980317 The following statement was made this morning by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon arrival at the Palais des Nations, where he was met by a large gathering of the staff of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Bonjour mes amis. This is a real homecoming.

SEA/1575

JOACHIM KOCH (GERMANY), PRESIDENT OF SEABED COUNCIL FOR 1998

17 March 1998


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SEA/1575


JOACHIM KOCH (GERMANY), PRESIDENT OF SEABED COUNCIL FOR 1998

19980317

KINGSTON, 16 March -- Joachim Koch (Germany), who was elected today as President of the Council of the International Seabed Authority for 1998, has headed since 1983 the Division for Legal Questions Relating to Economic Activities in the High Seas and Polar Regions, in the German Ministry of Economics.

SEA/1574

SEABED AUTHORITY OPENS 1998 SESSION; COUNCIL ELECTS PRESIDENT

17 March 1998


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SEA/1574


SEABED AUTHORITY OPENS 1998 SESSION; COUNCIL ELECTS PRESIDENT

19980317

KINGSTON, 16 March -- The International Seabed Authority opened its fourth annual session at Kingston this afternoon with meetings of its principal organs -- the 137-member Assembly and the 36-member Council.