Press Release

23 April 1996

Press Release
SC/6210

SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS ON STATES IN GREAT LAKES REGION TO ENSURE THAT THEIR TERRITORY NOT BE USED FOR ARMED GROUPS TO LAUNCH ATTACKS

19960423 Resolution 1053, Adopted Unanimously, Requests Secretary-General to Maintain Inquiry Commission Monitoring Arms Embargo against Rwandan Government Forces

23 April 1996

Press Release
IHA/595

23 April 1996

Press Release
HR/CN/744

ISRAEL DEFENDS ACTIONS IN LEBANON BEFORE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960423

GENEVA, 18 April (UN Information Service) -- Israel would halt its ongoing operations against Hezbollah when that group stopped lobbing Katyusha rockets into the north of the country, a representative of Israel told the Commission on Human Rights this afternoon.

23 April 1996

Press Release
GA/9066

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD CONDEMN, PUNISH ISRAEL FOR AGGRESSION, PRESIDENT OF LEBANON TELLS RESUMED SESSION

19960423 Israel Defends Actions as Response to Hezbollah, United States Says Assembly Should Endorse Security Council Resolution

23 April 1996

Press Release
ESCAP/255

23 April 1996

Press Release
ESCAP/254

FINANCIAL CRISIS NOTWITHSTANDING, COUNTRIES WANT TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND PACIFIC

19960423 (Delayed in transmission.)

23 April 1996

Press Release
ENV/DEV/353

23 April 1996

Press Release
ENV/DEV/352

23 April 1996

Press Release
DC/2550

SPEAKERS SAY COMMISSION ON DISARMAMENT'S FAILURE TO ACHIEVE RESULTS CALLS ITS WORK INTO QUESTION

19960423

The Disarmament Commission's failure to achieve consensus and concrete results on important issues in recent years has called into question its overall work, according to a number of speakers addressing that body this morning as it concluded its general debate.

22 April 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5968
DC/2548