(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
The President of Ireland, Mary Robinson (who was recently appointed as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, a post she will take up at a date yet to be determined), will visit Headquarters on Thursday, 24 July.
(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
The delegation of Honduras has been chosen by lot to occupy the first seat in the General Assembly Hall during the fifty-second regular session, opening on Tuesday, 16 September. The delegation of Honduras will, therefore, be seated in the front row at the extreme left (the Secretary-General's side of the podium).
The accredited correspondents' bus will leave from the Secretariat driveway at 8 a.m. on 9 July. At 10:30 a.m., the bus is scheduled to arrive at the Troutbeck conference centre, in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, where the talks will take place.
(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
The President of the United States, William J. Clinton, will visit United Nations Headquarters today to address the special session of the General Assembly which is reviewing implementation of Agenda 21 and to meet with Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"Population and Our World", an interactive multi-media exhibit produced by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), opened at Headquarters today in the Neck Area of the First Basement.
The 1997 United Nations International School (UNIS) graduation will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, 20 June, in the General Assembly Hall. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will address the UNIS Class of 1997.
When the Secretary-General met with President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 3 June at the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Summit, the first matter he raised with the President was human rights and the humanitarian situation regarding Rwandan refugees in that country.
