Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of the ceremony at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, to award the Nansen Medal to Graça Machel for her outstanding contributions on behalf of refugee children:

Following is the text of a message sent today by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to Willy Claes, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization:

"Dear Mr. Secretary General

"I have learned with great regret of your resignation from the position of Secretary General of NATO.

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ANV/220

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PREPARATORY COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX-PART DRAFT DECLARATION, CONCLUDES WORK

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ANV/220/Rev.1*

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PREPARATORY COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX-PART DRAFT DECLARATION FOR ADOPTION BY COMMEMORATIVE MEETING

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DH/2005

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 22 October 1995

* Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urges world leaders to give the United Nations a firm financial base.

* General Assembly President says supporting the UN should be a collective pledge of the special session.

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GA/8963

SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS AT HEADQUARTERS

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GA/8964

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GA/8965

CONTINUING FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEETINGS, SPEAKERS STRESS NEED FOR REVITALIZED UN TO RESOLVE NEW KINDS OF CONFLICTS

The challenge of peacefully resolving new kinds of conflicts should inspire the United Nations as it faced the new millennium, the General Assembly was told this afternoon as it continued its commemorative meeting on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary.

The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

At 4 p.m. Friday, 20 October, the Secretary-General met the President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari. The Secretary-General thanked the President for his support and presence in New York to attend the Special Commemorative Session of the General Assembly marking the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.

The Secretary-General and President Ahtisaari reviewed the financial crisis of the United Nations.

Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement on the occasion of the hoisting of the flag of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at Headquarters on Saturday, 21 October:

Few images command so great a sense of collective strength and solidarity than the flags that line the United Nations. Today we are proud to have that of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to be one among them. It makes eloquent an association that began on 8 April 1993, when this new yet ancient country joined the United Nations.