Following is the text of the keynote address by the President of the General Assembly, Theo-Ben Gurirab (Namibia) at the celebration of the Twenty- fifth Anniversary of the Victory of Peace in Viet Nam, at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, on 30 April:
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The Secretary-General travelled to Bangui from Gabon in the afternoon of Sunday, 30 April, to begin the first-ever visit of a United Nations Secretary- General to the Central African Republic.
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The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in May, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:
Meetings continued from previous month:
Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Banjul in the morning of Friday, 28 April, for the first-ever visit by a Secretary-General to the Gambia.
(Received from a UN Information Officer; reissued as received.)
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - one of three institutions created by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - will hold an open meeting on Monday, 1 May, at the start of its five-day seventh session at Headquarters.
(Received from a UN Information Officer.)
