Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Disarmament

DCF/308

UKRAINE CALLS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ANTI-PERSONNEL LAND-MINES IN DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

31 July 1997


Press Release
DCF/308


UKRAINE CALLS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ANTI-PERSONNEL LAND-MINES IN DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

19970731 (Delayed in transmission; reissued as received)

GENEVA, 29 July (UN Information Service) -- Ukraine this morning called for the establishment of a negotiating committee on anti-personnel land-mines within the Conference on Disarmament.

DCF/306

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE SEARCHES FOR AGREEMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF PANEL ON 'NEGATIVE SECURITY ASSURANCES'

1 July 1997


Press Release
DCF/306


DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE SEARCHES FOR AGREEMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF PANEL ON 'NEGATIVE SECURITY ASSURANCES'

19970701 (Delayed in transmission; reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 27 June (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament, despite appeals from a number of developing countries, was unable to reach consensus this morning on establishment of an ad hoc committee on "negative security assurances" to non-nuclear-weapons States.

DCF/304

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DECIDES TO APPOINT SPECIAL COORDINATOR ON LAND-MINES

1 July 1997


Press Release
DCF/304


CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DECIDES TO APPOINT SPECIAL COORDINATOR ON LAND-MINES

19970701 (Delayed in transmission; reproduced as received.)

GENEVA, 26 June (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament approved this morning a proposal to appoint a "Special Coordinator" to explore the establishment of a possible mandate on the question of anti-personnel land-mines.