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HR/4206

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HR/4207

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD FIFTEENTH SESSION AT GENEVA FROM 13 TO 24 NOVEMBER

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HR/4208

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HR/CT/448

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION AT GENEVA, 16 OCTOBER - 3 NOVEMBER

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POP/600

The Security Council this afternoon decided that the election to fill the vacancy on the International Court of Justice will be held on 28 February 1996.

By adopting without a vote resolution 1018 (1995), in accordance with Article 14 of the Statute of the Court, the Security Council set the date for its simultaneous meeting with the General Assembly to elect the new member of the Court, who will serve out the remainder of the nine-year term of Judge Andres Aguilar Mawdsley (Venezuela), until 5 February 2000. Judge Mawdsley died on 24 October.

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DH/2018

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 8 November 1995

* General Assembly elects five non-permanent members of Security Council.

* Secretary-General begins visits to Poland and France.

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GA/8989

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GA/AB/3038/

OVERSIGHT OFFICE SHOULD ESTABLISH PROCEDURES TO PREVENT RECURRENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DEFICIENCIES, FIFTH COMMITTEE TOLD

In Press Release GA/AB/3038 of 7 November, the first sentence in the first full paragraph on page 9 should be corrected to read as follows:

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GA/AB/3040

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS DRAFT RESOLUTION ON DOCUMENTATION

The General Assembly would decide to restrict the length of documents produced by the Secretariat for its discussion or for its subsidiary bodies to 16 pages, under a draft resolution on reduction of paperwork introduced by the United States in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon.