Press Release

25 January 1996

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HR/4288

25 January 1996

Press Release
HR/4287

25 January 1996

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H/2894

25 January 1996

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ECOSOC/5633

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS 1996 ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION, ELECTS JEAN-MARIE KACOU GERVAIS, OF COTE D'IVOIRE, PRESIDENT

19960125 Also elects Members to New WFP Executive Board And Enlarged Commission on Population and Development

25 January 1996

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DH/2067

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 25 January 1996

19960125 * Secretary-General recommends extension of UNIFIL mandate until 31 July; says Force contributes to stability in Lebanon.

* Secretary-General calls for early conclusion of comprehensive test ban treaty as Disarmament Conference begins 1996 session in Geneva.

25 January 1996

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DEV/2089

25 January 1996

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DCF/248

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT OPENS FIRST PART OF 1996 SESSION

19960125

GENEVA, 23 January (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament today heard appeals for the rapid conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty by June 1996 and reestablished its Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear-Test Ban, as it began the first part of its 1996 session.

25 January 1996

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BIO/3004*
ECOSOC/5634

JEAN-MARIE KACOU GERVAIS OF COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19960125 Biographical Note Jean-Marie Kacou Gervais, Permanent Representative of Côte d'Ivoire to the United Nations, was today elected President of the Economic and Social Council for 1996.

Mr. Gervais, who has been serving as his country's Permanent Representative since 1992, was a Vice-President of the Council in 1995.

25 January 1996

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BIO/3003

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF HAITI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

19960125 Biographical Note

Pierre Lelong, the new Permanent Representative of Haiti to the United Nations, this afternoon presented his credentials to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.