Press Release

13 November 1998

Press Release
GA/DIS/3134/

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WOULD STRONGLY DEPLORE SOUTH ASIA NUCLEAR TESTS UNDER TERMS OF DRAFT TEXT APPROVED BY FIRST COMMITTEE CORRECTION

19981113

In Press Release GA/DIS/3134 issued on 12 November, the statement of the representative of Ecuador on page 5 should read as follows:

13 November 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6793

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT IN CAMBODIA TO CONVENE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND ESTABLISH COALITION GOVERNMENT

19981113 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

13 November 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3263

13 November 1998

Press Release
GA/SHC/3508

MEASURES TO PROTECT CHILDREN, COMBAT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, END DEGRADING TREATMENT OF MIGRANT WORKERS RECOMMENDED BY THIRD COMMITTEE TEXTS

19981113 Drafts on Human Rights Situation in Iraq, Assistance to Unaccompanied Refugee Minors, Human Rights and Unilateral Coercive Measures Introduced

13 November 1998

Press Release
SG/T/2156

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WESTERN SAHARA 8 - 9 NOVEMBER

19981113 (Received from a spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.)

The Secretary-General travelled from Mauritania to Western Sahara in the afternoon of Sunday, 8 November. He was welcomed at the airport by the Moroccan Minister of the Interior, Driss Basri, and by senior officials of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

13 November 1998

Press Release
ECOSOC/5805
ICJ/559

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/9501

ASSEMBLY ELECTS 18 NEW MEMBERS TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, IN FOUR ROUNDS OF BALLOTING

19981112 Three-Year Terms To Become Effective 1 January 1999

In four rounds of balloting today, the General Assembly elected 18 members to fill vacancies on the 54-member Economic and Social Council. The newly elected members will begin their three-year terms on 1 January 1999.

12 November 1998

Press Release
GA/L/3095

12 November 1998

Press Release
HR/4389

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD NINETEENTH SESSION AT GENEVA -- 16 NOVEMBER TO 4 DECEMBER

19981112 Background Release Group Scheduled to Consider Reports from Israel, Cyprus, Switzerland, Germany and Canada

(Reissued as received.)

12 November 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6792

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES INSIGHTS OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIES PROJECT, AS PROJECT PRESENTS FINDINGS IN GENEVA

19981112 Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan read on his behalf by the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Alvaro de Soto, to the War-torn Societies Project, which presented some of its findings at a meeting in Geneva on 11 November: