Press Release

6 March 1996

Press Release
HAB/111
ESCAP/250

IMPENDING ASIAN URBAN CRISES AND ALTERNATIVES FOR FUTURE FOCUS OF SECOND ASIA-PACIFIC URBAN FORUM IN BANGKOK

19960306 Last Major Regional Preparatory Meeting for Habitat II

6 March 1996

Press Release
H/2901

6 March 1996

Press Release
GA/9052/Rev.1*

DOWNING OF PLANES SOVEREIGN ACT IN DEFENCE OF BORDERS, CUBA TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19960306 Citing Long History of Provocative Acts, Foreign Minister Gives Detailed Account of Cuban Position

6 March 1996

Press Release
GA/9052

DOWNING OF PLANES SOVEREIGN ACT IN DEFENCE OF BORDERS, CUBA TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19960306 Citing Long History of Provocative Acts, Foreign Minister Gives Detailed Account of Cuban Position

6 March 1996

Press Release
DH/2095

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 6 March 1996

19960306 * Secretary-General says the UN should take initiative to deal with multinational dimensions of terrorism.

* Cuba, in address to General Assembly, asks if sovereign right to defend borders and national security is only prerogative of powerful and not poor or small countries.

* Plan of action for Indo-Chinese refugees to end in June.

6 March 1996

Press Release

NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL/UN STUDENT CONFERENCE AT HEADQUARTERS, 7-8 MARCH

19960306

Topic Is 'Children of the World: Struggles of a Generation'

The twentieth annual United Nations International School (UNIS)/United Nations Student Conference will be held at United Nations Headquarters on 7 and 8 March in the General Assembly Hall.

5 March 1996

Press Release
SG/T/2029

5 March 1996

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SG/SM/5913

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST UNITE AGAINST 'DESPICABLE ACTS OF VIOLENCE', SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

19960305 The following is the text of a statement issued today in Mexico City by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

5 March 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5912/Rev.1*

STATEMENT BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF MEXICO INTRODUCING SECRETARY-GENERAL AT INSTITUTE FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES

19960305 Following is the text, translated from the Spanish, of the statement delivered yesterday, 4 March, in Tlatelolco by the Foreign Minister of Mexico, José Angel Gurria Trevino, introducing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at his lecture at the Institute "Matias Romero" for Diplomatic Studies:

5 March 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5911

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES DEMOCRATIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM IN ADDRESS TO MEXICAN PARLIAMENT

19960305 ADVANCE TEXT Following is a text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's address in Mexico City to the joint session of Commissions of Foreign Affairs of both Houses of Mexican Parliament, on 5 March:

I am honoured to be here, in the Chamber of this great democratic institution.