Press Release

25 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4510

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE HEARS INTRODUCTION OF DRAFT TEXT ON OUTCOME OF FIRST SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

19990525 According to Draft, Assembly Would Adopt Global Poverty-reduction Target To Reduce by Half Number Living in Extreme Poverty by 2015

25 May 1999

Press Release
GA/AB/3298

THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRUPTION IN PEACEKEEPING PROCUREMENT MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, UNITED STATES TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE

19990525 Committee Concludes Discussion of Financing Peacekeeping In Angola, Central African Republic, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7003

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED WITH REPORTS OF FIGHTING BETWEEN INDIAN AND PAKISTANI TROOPS IN KASHMIR

19990525 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is concerned about report of a two-week long heavy exchange of fire between the Indian and Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in the Kargil and Drass sectors in Jammu and Kashmir.

25 May 1999

Press Release
GA/9558
REC/51

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7001
OBV/95

IN MESSAGE ON OCCASION OF WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL JOINS CALL TO SMOKERS EVERYWHERE TO 'LEAVE THE PACK BEHIND'

19990525 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day:

25 May 1999

Press Release
GA/COL/2999

DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE BEGINS CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

19990525 Independence 'Categorical Imperative,' States Saint Lucia's Foreign Minister; Committee Chairman Says Remaining Territories Ignored in Rush to Globalization

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

25 May 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7004

24 May 1999

Press Release
GA/9555
REC/49

24 May 1999

Press Release
REC/48

WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS

19990524

BANGKOK, 21 May (United Nations Information Service) --- An interregional workshop on the "Social Implications of the Financial Crisis" and an expert group meeting on the "Agenda for Action on Social Development in the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) region will be held from 25 to 27 May at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok.

24 May 1999

Press Release
GA/9560