Press Release

30 April 1999

Press Release
SG/T/2176

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MOSCOW, 28 - 29 APRIL

19990430 The Secretary-General arrived in Moscow from Berlin in the evening of Wednesday, 28 April.

Before beginning his official meetings on Thursday, the Secretary- General conferred with his Special Envoy for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Yuliy Vorontsov.

30 April 1999

Press Release
ENV/DEV/512

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES TO RESUME WORK IN SEPTEMBER

19990430 Recommendation among Texts Adopted As Current Phase of Deliberations Concludes

30 April 1999

Press Release
PI/1126

30 April 1999

Press Release
SC/6668

30 April 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6978
PI/1128

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS RIGHT TO FOUGHT FOR, NOT BLESSING TO BE WISHED FOR, JOINT MESSAGE STATES ON OCCASION OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

19990430 Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UNESCO Director-General, High Commissioner for Human Rights Issue Joint Appeal for Safety of Journalists

30 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/942

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION

19990430 Appoints Special Representative on Equatorial Guinea, Special Rapporteur On Migrants' Rights, Calls for Joint Mission to Democratic Republic of Congo

(Reissued as received.)

30 April 1999

Press Release
SAG/28

30 April 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6976

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS COUP D'ÉTAT IN COMOROS

19990430 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General condemns the coup d'état in the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros which overthrew the constitutional Government.

29 April 1999

Press Release
ICJ/569

YUGOSLAVIA INSTITUTES PROCEEDINGS AT ICJ AGAINST 10 STATES FOR VIOLATION OF OBLIGATION NOT TO USE FORCE AGAINST ANOTHER STATE

19990429 Requests Court to Order That Use of Force Cease Immediately Hearings on Provisional Measures to Open Monday, 10 May

29 April 1999

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DSG/SM/48
ECOSOC/5819

NOTING FEARS OF GLOBAL RECESSION DID NOT MATERIALIZE, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CAUTIONS 'NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR COMPLACENCY'

19990429 Louise Fréchette Tells Meeting of Economic and Social Council and Bretton Woods Institutions It Would Be Grave Mistake to Return to Business as Usual