Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

In progress at UNHQ

Press Release

SG/SM/6058

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGACY OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

18 September 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/6058


SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGACY OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

19960918 Life and Works of United Nations Leader Commemorated In Exhibition Marking 35th Anniversary of His Death in Air Crash

This is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali today, when opening an exhibition in the Visitors' Lobby of the General Assembly building to mark the 35th anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld:

HR/CT/474

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD THIRTEENTH SESSION IN GENEVA

18 September 1996


Press Release
HR/CT/474


CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD THIRTEENTH SESSION IN GENEVA

19960918 Background Release

GENEVA, 17 September (UN Information Service) -- The promotion and protection of children's rights in Morocco, Nigeria, Uruguay, United Kingdom (Hong Kong), Mauritius and Slovenia will be the focus of discussion as the Committee on the Rights of the Child meets for its thirteenth session at Geneva from 23 September to 11 October.

SG/SM/6057

SECRETARY-GENERAL REGRETS 'SHRINKING INTEREST' IN GLOBAL NEWS, SAYS PUBLIC IS DENIED DEPTH OF COVERAGE IT DESERVES

17 September 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/6057


SECRETARY-GENERAL REGRETS 'SHRINKING INTEREST' IN GLOBAL NEWS, SAYS PUBLIC IS DENIED DEPTH OF COVERAGE IT DESERVES

19960917 Luncheon Audience Is Told Advances in Technology Have Done Little to Enhance International Understanding

This is the text of an address given at Headquarters today by Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Scholarship luncheon:

BIO/3041*-GA/L/2998

RAMON ESCOVAR SALOM OF VENEZUELA ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF SIXTH COMMITTEE


Biographical Note                                    


RAMON ESCOVAR SALOM OF VENEZUELA ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF SIXTH COMMITTEE


Ramon Escovar Salom, the new Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, was elected today Chairman of the Sixth Committee (Legal).

BIO/3040-GA/AB/3087

NGONI FRANCIS SENGWE OF ZIMBABWE ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF FIFTH COMMITTEE


Biographical Note                              


     NGONI FRANCIS SENGWE OF ZIMBABWE ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF FIFTH COMMITTEE


Ngoni Francis Sengwe, who was today elected Chairman of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), has served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the United Nations since February 1992.