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REVIEW CONFERENCE OF STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION VIENNA, 25 SEPTEMBER - 13 OCTOBER

Press Release

Press Release

NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS

TO DISCUSS CURRENT STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Meeting on 25 October will Consider Action Called for by Recent conferences in Vienna and Beijing

The Security Council this afternoon responding to the Secretary-General's recent report on the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) welcomed progress made in the past two months by the Government of Rwanda in the national reconciliation process, including the integration of more than 2,000 former Rwandese Government Forces (RGF) troops into the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA).

Greater international attention to the needs of the growing elderly population was necessary, speakers told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this morning, as it continued its discussion of social development questions.

Aggression was a classic crime against mankind, stated the representative of Algeria. Rather than undertaking the "pointless exercise" of seeking to define that crime, the International Law Commission should rely on the definition established by the General Assembly in its resolution 3314 (XXIX).

World Court President Urges Greater Use Of Court's Advisory Mechanism in Conflict Prevention

The draft code of crimes against the peace and security of mankind should be limited to a circumscribed list of serious international infractions, the Sixth Committee was told this morning as it continued consideration of the report of the International Law Commission. The Commission has, for several years, been elaborating the draft code.

Micro-Disarmament, Control of Light Weapons, Addressing Conflict in Context of Economic and Social Issues also Cited

It was imperative that a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty be concluded by 1996, the date to which all the nuclear-weapon Powers had committed themselves, Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun (Mongolia) said this morning, as the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) began its general debate.

Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali arrived in Port-au-Prince on Saturday afternoon, 14 October, for a two-day visit to Haiti. He was greeted at the airport by the Prime Minister, Smarck Michel, and Foreign Minister Claudette Werleigh, as well as his Special Representative in Haiti, Lakhdar Brahimi.

This is the text of the statement made today by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at the fifth summit conference of Ibero-American Heads of State and Government at San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina:

The United Nations values highly the association of nations of shared cultural and linguistic heritage -- the Commonwealth, the Francophone countries, the Lusophone countries, the Ibero-American family of nations gathered here today. Such associations are a critical component of international cooperation.