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SG/SM/6013

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS SYMPATHY TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN YEMEN

2 July 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/6013


SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS SYMPATHY TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN YEMEN

19960702 The following was issued yesterday, 1 July, by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is deeply saddened to learn of the toll in lives taken by the floods that recently struck Yemen causing extensive damage to many villages, towns and cities across the country.

SG/SM/6012

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR TOTAL BAN ON PRODUCTION, SALE, USE OF LAND-MINES IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE IN DENMARK

2 July 1996


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SG/SM/6012
IHA/602


SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR TOTAL BAN ON PRODUCTION, SALE, USE OF LAND-MINES IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE IN DENMARK

19960702 Following is Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's message to the International Conference on Mine-Clearance Technology, delivered on his behalf by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Yasushi Akashi at the Scanticon Conference Centre near Copenhagen today:

SG/SM/6010/Rev.1

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST MILITARY COMPOUND IN SAUDI ARABIA

26 June 1996


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SG/SM/6010/Rev.1


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST MILITARY COMPOUND IN SAUDI ARABIA

19960626 (Received from the spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.)

LONDON, 26 June -- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was shocked to learn of the terrorist attack last night against a military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

SG/SM/6010

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK ON UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BASE IN SAUDI ARABIA

26 June 1996


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SG/SM/6010


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK ON UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BASE IN SAUDI ARABIA

19960626 (Received from the spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.)

LONDON, 26 June -- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was shocked to learn of the terrorist attack last night on a United States Air Force base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

SG/SM/6009

EXTREME POVERTY OFFENDS MOST BASIC VALUES OF UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DIALOGUE ON POVERTY

24 June 1996


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SG/SM/6009


EXTREME POVERTY OFFENDS MOST BASIC VALUES OF UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DIALOGUE ON POVERTY

19960624 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Following is the text of the statement, translated from French, to be delivered by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of the Dialogue on Poverty, to take place at Geneva on 25 June:

SG/SM/6008

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GREAT SADNESS OVER DEATH OF FORMER GREEK PRIME MINISTER ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

24 June 1996


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SG/SM/6008


SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GREAT SADNESS OVER DEATH OF FORMER GREEK PRIME MINISTER ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

19960624 GENEVA, 23 June (UN Information Service) -- Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary-General has learned with great sadness of the death this morning of Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece.