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ECOSOC/5714

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS DIALOGUE ON UN ACTIVITIES IN CAMBODIA

8 July 1997


Press Release
ECOSOC/5714


ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS DIALOGUE ON UN ACTIVITIES IN CAMBODIA

19970708

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 8 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council continued this morning to discuss operational activities in the field of development, with representatives of United Nations agencies in Cambodia emphasizing the level of coordination prevalent among the programmes they oversaw.

NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE OF CYPRUS TALKS' OPENING AT TROUTBECK, 9 JULY

8 July 1997


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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE OF CYPRUS TALKS' OPENING AT TROUTBECK, 9 JULY

19970708

The accredited correspondents' bus will leave from the Secretariat driveway at 8 a.m. on 9 July. At 10:30 a.m., the bus is scheduled to arrive at the Troutbeck conference centre, in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, where the talks will take place.

WOM/974

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS SEVENTEENTH SESSION

7 July 1997


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WOM/974


COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEGINS SEVENTEENTH SESSION

19970707

Five more countries had become parties to the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, bringing the total number of ratifications to 160, the monitoring body for the implementation of that Convention was told this morning as it opened its seventeenth session.

SG/SM/6280

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO PUT END ONCE AND FOR ALL TO CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL AFRICA, IN MESSAGE TO MINISTERIAL MEETING IN LIBREVILLE

7 July 1997


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SG/SM/6280
AFR/14


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED TO PUT END ONCE AND FOR ALL TO CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL AFRICA, IN MESSAGE TO MINISTERIAL MEETING IN LIBREVILLE

19970707 Following is the message, translated from French, of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the ninth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, Libreville, Gabon, from 7 to 11 July:

SG/SM/6278

STATEMENT BY SECRETARY-GENERAL ON CAMBODIA

7 July 1997


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SG/SM/6278


STATEMENT BY SECRETARY-GENERAL ON CAMBODIA

19970707 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: