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DH/2036
5 December 1995


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DH/2036


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 5 December 1995

19951205 * Secretary-General cautions that peace is not simply the absence of war.

* General Assembly demands Israel withdraw from occupied Syrian Golan.

* Agreement on conservation and management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks opens for signature.

* Tenth International Volunteers day is observed.

5 December 1995


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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS THE DAY THE WORLD PLAYED FOOTBALL

19951205

Saturday, 9 December, will mark the day the whole world played football -- to observe the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.

SG/SM/5837
4 December 1995


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SG/SM/5837


SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF PRESIDENT FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY

19951204 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY `His Moral Authority Continues to Dictate the Path We Should Take Towards Peace and Development' Mr. Boutros-Ghali States

Following is the text of the tribute, translated from the French, paid by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the memory of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Yamoussoukro on 5 December:

SG/SM/5836
4 December 1995


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SG/SM/5836


SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN

19951204 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY His Tragic Death Has Demonstrated Yet Again the Extent To Which a Man of Peace Becomes a Target for Every Kind of Fanaticism, He Says

SG/SM/5833
4 December 1995


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SG/SM/5833


MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL MARKS INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY 5 DECEMBER

19951204 Following is the text of the message from Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of International Volunteer Day observed on 5 December:

SG/SM/5832
4 December 1995


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SG/SM/5832


STATEMENT BY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT AWARD OF HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY PRIZE

19951204 ADVANCE RELEASE

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, on the occasion of the awarding of the Houphouët-Boigny Prize at Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, on 5 December: