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HR/CN/936

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES CHAIRPERSON'S STATEMENT ON COLOMBIA

27 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CN/936


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES CHAIRPERSON'S STATEMENT ON COLOMBIA

19990427 Adopts Texts on Occupied Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Slavery, Rights of Migrants, Minorities, Indigenous People, Among Others

(Reissued as received.)

SOC/NAR/798

TAJIK PRESIDENT OPENS CRIME COMMISSION, SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR NEW DRUG CONTROL AGENCY

27 April 1999


Press Release
SOC/NAR/798


TAJIK PRESIDENT OPENS CRIME COMMISSION, SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR NEW DRUG CONTROL AGENCY

19990427

VIENNA, 27 April (UN Information Service) -- Tajik President Emomali Rakhmanov signed an agreement today with the Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Pino Arlacchi, to set up a new drug control agency in Tajikistan, which should greatly boost its fight against illicit drugs.

DSG/SM/47

ELIMINATING POVERTY OBLIGATION RESPONSIBILITY SHARED BY ALL, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT LAUNCH OF ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE

27 April 1999


Press Release
DSG/SM/47


ELIMINATING POVERTY OBLIGATION RESPONSIBILITY SHARED BY ALL, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT LAUNCH OF ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE

19990427 Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/Cisco Systems Initiative on the Eradication of Poverty in New York on 27 April: