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REF/1138

UNHCR SEEKS $30.8 MILLION FOR ANGOLAN REFUGEES

22 March 1996


Press Release
REF/1138


UNHCR SEEKS $30.8 MILLION FOR ANGOLAN REFUGEES

19960322 GENEVA, 22 March (UNHCR) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today appealed for $30.8 million for its repatriation programme this year for some 300,000 Angolan refugees.

Since the signing of the peace accord in November 1994, more than 14,500 Angolan refugees have returned spontaneously to their country.

DH/2107

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 22 March 1996

22 March 1996


Press Release
DH/2107


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 22 March 1996

19960322 * Secretary-General in message on World Water Day urges international community to act to avert impending water supply catastrophe.

* Secretary-General concludes visit to France; speaks on role of United Nations and democratic values.

* UN staff members kidnapped in Somalia freed.

NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS BARONESS CHALKER TO GIVE RAF"L M. SALAS LECTURE

22 March 1996


Press Release


NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS BARONESS CHALKER TO GIVE RAFAEL M. SALAS LECTURE

19960322

NEW YORK, 22 March (UNFPA) -- Baroness Lynda Chalker of Wallasey, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development of the United Kingdom, will give the Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture at 5:30 p.m., on Tuesday, 26 March, in the Economic and Social Council Chamber.

WOM/916

SEVEN DRAFT TEXTS INTRODUCED IN COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

21 March 1996


Press Release
WOM/916


SEVEN DRAFT TEXTS INTRODUCED IN COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

19960321

The Commission on the Status of Women would condemn the murders, violence and terrorism against women journalists, particularly in Algeria, by the terms of one of seven drafts introduced in that body this afternoon.