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GA/AB/3062

FIFTH COMMITTEE BEGINS RESUMED SESSION

18 March 1996


Press Release
GA/AB/3062


FIFTH COMMITTEE BEGINS RESUMED SESSION

19960318

The United Nations should allow more open access to procurement information by disseminating the information worldwide, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this afternoon, as it began the first part of its resumed session and discussed reform of the United Nations procurement system.

DH/2103

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 18 March 1996

18 March 1996


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DH/2103


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 18 March 1996

19960318 * Secretary-General says human rights violations must be denounced on a case-by-case basis wherever they occur.

* Third round of oil-for-food talks with Iraq to begin in New York next month.

* Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concludes 48th session examining measures by some countries to combat discrimination.

SG/SM/5924/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S STATEMENT AT OPENING OF FIFTY-SECOND SESSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

15 March 1996


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SG/SM/5924/Rev.1*
HR/CN/703/Rev.1*


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S STATEMENT AT OPENING OF FIFTY-SECOND SESSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960315 Following is the text, translated from the French, of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement delivered today at the opening of the fifty- second session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva:

SG/SM/5923/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SYSTEM-WIDE INITIATIVE ON AFRICA 'NEW MILESTONE' IN UNITED NATIONS COLLABORATION

15 March 1996


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SG/SM/5923/Rev.1*
DEV/2098/Rev.1*


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SYSTEM-WIDE INITIATIVE ON AFRICA 'NEW MILESTONE' IN UNITED NATIONS COLLABORATION

19960315 Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement, delivered live via satellite from Geneva, at the launching today of the United Nations System-wide Special Initiative on Africa: