His Holiness Pope John Paul II will visit United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 5 October, to address the General Assembly and the United Nations staff. Following are the arrangements that have been made by the Department of Public Information (DPI) to assist correspondents. The Headquarters will be closed that day to the general public. The Pope's itinerary is contained in Note No. 5300 issued 2 October.
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Biographical Note: Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 January 1992, when he began a five-year term. At the time of his appointment by the General Assembly on 3 December 1991, Mr. Boutros-Ghali had been Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt since May 1991 and had served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from October 1977 until 1991.
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