Press Release

1 February 1999

Press Release
WOM/1093

1 February 1999

Press Release
SC/6638

NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN FEBRUARY

19990201 In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the new Chairmen of the United Nations security bodies for February:

Security Council

Robert R. Fowler (Canada) succeeds Celso L.N. Amorim (Brazil) as President of the Security Council.

Military Staff Committee

1 February 1999

Press Release
SG/T/2166

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S VISIT TO BELGIUM, 26-28 JANUARY

19990201

The Secretary-General travelled from Geneva to Brussels in the evening of Tuesday, 26 January. He was welcomed to Belgium by the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Erik Derycke.

At 9:30 a.m. on the following day, he met with the families of the Belgian peacekeepers killed in Rwanda in 1994. He then had an audience with King Albert II at the Palais Royal.

29 January 1999

Press Release
SC/6636

SECURITY COUNCIL URGES ERITREA TO ACCEPT OAU AGREEMENT TO SETTLE BORDER DISPUTE WITH ETHIOPIA

19990129 Resolution 1226 (1999) Adopted Unanimously

Expressing grave concern about the risk of armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea over their border dispute, the Security Council this afternoon strongly urged Eritrea to accept an Organization of African Unity (OAU) Framework Agreement for its settlement.

29 January 1999

Press Release
WOM/1091

WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF THAILAND REPORTS

19990129 Representative of Thailand Responds to Experts' Questions And Comments on Compliance with Anti-Discrimination Convention

29 January 1999

Press Release
HR/4403

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTIETH SESSION AT GENEVA

19990129 Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations On Reports of Austria, Belize, Guinea, Sweden and Yemen

29 January 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6880

IN ACCEPTING NONVIOLENCE AWARD, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES NOT TO FORGET SACRIFICES OF MAHATMA GANDHI AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

19990129 Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon receiving the first Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence, which was delivered today in New York on his behalf by Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations Gillian Sorensen:

29 January 1999

Press Release
SC/6637

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO

19990129 Presidential Statement Welcomes and Supports Contact Group Decisions Aimed at Establishing Framework and Timetable for Political Settlement

29 January 1999

Press Release
PI/1115

29 January 1999

Press Release
WOM/1090

DESPITE GOVERNMENT DECLARATION OF NEW PHASE OF EQUAL RIGHTS, THAI WOMEN CONTINUE IN TRADITIONAL ROLES, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

19990129 Committee Takes Up Report of Thailand