GENEVA, 13 May (UNHCR) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees made an urgent plea today to west African countries to keep their doors open to thousands of Liberian refugees fleeing fighting in Monrovia.
Following is the text, translated from the French, of an address by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at a seminar held on 8 May on the address by his Holiness Pope John Paul II at the fiftieth session of the General Assembly:
This statement was issued today by the spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:
In an age when new information technologies offered exciting new opportunities, the Department of Public Information should have the resources it needs to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, the representative of the United States said this morning, as the Committee on Information continued its general debate.
