In progress at UNHQ

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DH/2009
26 October 1995


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DH/2009


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 26 October 1995

19951026 * Secretary-General warns United Nations will be crippled if Members States do not pay assessed contributions as required by Charter; projects General Fund deficit of $240 million by end of 1995.

* Secretary-General appoints Joe Sills as Director of United Nations Information Centre in Washington, D.C., with effect from 1 December.

SG/SM/5799
25 October 1995


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SG/SM/5799
HQ/559


SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS VIET NAM FOR GIFT TO UNITED NATIONS

19951025 Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's remarks today on the occasion of the presentation by President Le Duc Anh of Viet Nam of a gift to the United Nations:

SG/SM/5798
25 October 1995


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SG/SM/5798
POP/599


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS 'STATEMENT OF POPULATION STABILIZATION BY WORLD LEADERS' REFLECTS COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT

19951025 Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's remarks at a Headquarters ceremony at which President Soeharto of Indonesia presented him with a statement on population stabilization, signed by 75 heads of government:

SG/SM/5797
25 October 1995


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SG/SM/5797
HR/4199


STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REQUIRES UNCEASING VIGILANCE SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT RIGHTS FORUM

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement to the human rights forum at Headquarters today:

I am delighted to join you today. I congratulate the organizers of this forum on this initiative.

PI/919
25 October 1995


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PI/919


DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION PUBLISHES FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE OF `WORLD MEDIA HANDBOOK'

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The United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) is launching its 1995 directory of selected media and related data covering more than 180 countries. In some 350 pages the publication, entitled World Media Handbook, integrates a wealth of data not available from any other single source.