Press Release

20 May 1999

Press Release
DSG/SM/52/Rev.1*

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO NEED COMMITMENT, ENERGIES AND IDEAS OF FORMER INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS

19990520 Louise Fréchette Takes Up Subject of UN Reform In Address to Association of Former International Civil Servants

20 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4507

STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES SHOULD INCLUDE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GOALS, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

19990520 Preparatory Committee for Special Session on Social Summit Outcome Takes Up Africa and Least Development Countries, Structural Adjustment Programmes

20 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4504/

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT DISCUSSES SUMMIT COMMITMENT ON POVERTY ERADICATION CORRECTION

19990520

On page 6 of Press Release SOC/4504 issued 19 May, the name of the representative of Syria should read:

ALI AL-KHALIL, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

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20 May 1999

Press Release
DSG/SM/52

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO NEED COMMITMENT, ENERGIES AND IDEAS OF FORMER INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS

19990520 Louise Frechette Takes up Subject of UN Reform In Address to Association of Former International Civil Servants

20 May 1999

Press Release
DCF/368/Rev.1*

UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE PROPOSE DRAFT PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

19990520 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 20 May (UN Information Service) -- The United States, the United Kingdom and France today proposed a draft programme of work for the Conference on Disarmament which could allow the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations to start its substantive work.

20 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4506

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT TAKES UP ISSUES OF INTEGRATION, EQUALITY, EDUCATION AND HEALTH

19990520 Poland's Representative Calls for International Instrument to Protect Family; Access to Primary Schooling, Protection of Migrant Workers Discussed

19 May 1999

Press Release
SC/6680

SECURITY COUNCIL ENDORSES RECOMMENDATION THAT RWANDA TRIBUNAL JUDGE ASPEGREN FINISH RUTAGANDA AND MUSEMA CASES BEFORE EXPIRY OF HIS TERM OF OFFICE

19990519 Resolution 1241 (1999) Adopted Unanimously

19 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/NAR/801

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD TO REVIEW IMPLEMENTATION OF DRUG CONTROL TREATIES, 10 TO 21 MAY

19990519

VIENNA, 7 May (UN Information Service) -- Steps governments have taken to implement international drug control treaties over the past six months will be the main focus of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) at its upcoming session, which begins here on Monday, 10 May.

19 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4502/

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT BEGINS PRELIMINARY REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF SUMMIT'S OUTCOME

19990519 CORRECTION

On page 13 of Press Release SOC/4502 issued 18 May, the first paragraph of the speaker from Kazakhstan should read as follows:

19 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6998
AFR/143

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT ON SIERRA LEONE

19990519 The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan concerning the Sierra Leone ceasefire was issued today by his Spokesman: