Press Release

26 January 1999

Press Release
SC/6631

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION 864 (1993) CONCERNING SITUATION IN ANGOLA HOLDS FIRST MEETING OF YEAR

19990126 Meeting Held under Committee's New Chairman, Robert R. Fowler (Canada)

The following was issued today by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 864 (1993) concerning the situation in Angola:

26 January 1999

Press Release
WOM/1085/

ALGERIAN WOMEN FULL ACTORS IN POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE OF COUNTRY, WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

19990126 CORRECTION

In the last paragraph on page 12 of Press Release WOM/1085 issued 26 January, the word "measles" should be replaced by "smallpox".

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26 January 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6874
DCF/354

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT TO EMBARK ON MEANINGFUL NEGOTIATIONS FOR A FISSILE MATERIAL TREATY

19990126 Kofi Annan Says It Is Important To Establish Arrangements To Assure Non-Nuclear-Weapon States against Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons

Following is the text of a statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, on 26 January 1999:

26 January 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6873

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DEEP SYMPATHY WITH GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA AFTER EARTHQUAKE HITS COUNTRY

19990126 The following statement was issued today by a spokesperson for Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Geneva:

26 January 1999

Press Release
WOM/1085

ALGERIAN WOMEN FULL ACTORS IN POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE OF COUNTRY, WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

19990126 Committee Concludes Consideration of Algeria's Report on Compliance with Anti-Discrimination Convention

26 January 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6873/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DEEP SYMPATHY WITH GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA AFTER EARTHQUAKE HITS COUNTRY

19990126 The following statement was issued today by a spokesperson for Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Geneva:

25 January 1999

Press Release
SG/T/2164

25 January 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6871
AFR/128

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECISION BY ARUSHA SUMMIT TO SUSPEND SANCTIONS AGAINST BURUNDI

19990125 Following is the text of a statement made in Geneva on 24 January by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General of the United Nations welcomes the decision taken yesterday at the Arusha Regional Summit by Burundi's neighbour countries to suspend the economic sanctions imposed on that country in 1996.

25 January 1999

Press Release
WOM/1083

DESPITE PROGRESS TOWARDS DE JURE GENDER EQUALITY IN LIECHTENSTEIN, "REAL EQUALITY" WILL REQUIRE GREAT EFFORT, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

19990125 Committee Takes up Liechtenstein's Report on Compliance With Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

25 January 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/6872

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ICRC AND UNITED NATIONS ARE GOOD AND EFFECTIVE PARTNERS

19990125 Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the ICRC's Geneva Headquarters: