Press Release

10 August 1998

Press Release
SOC/4465

ETHEL BLONDIN-ANDREW OF CANADA ELECTED CHAIRPERSON OF MAIN COMMITTEE OF WORLD CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUTH

19980810 (Received from a United Nations Information Officer.)

LISBON, 8 August -- Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Canadian Secretary of State for Children and Youth, has been elected as Chairperson of the Main Committee of the first World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth, which began in Lisbon this afternoon.

7 August 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6668
AFR/89

SECRETARY-GENERAL, OUTRAGED AND APPALLED, ADAMANTLY CONDEMNS BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN NAIROBI AND DAR-ES-SALAAM

19980807 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

7 August 1998

Press Release
SG/A/684
BIO/3174

ISSA B. Y. DIALLO OF GUINEA APPOINTED SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ANGOLA

19980807 Biographical Note

Issa B.Y. Diallo, presently Director of the Division of Conference Services at the United Nations Office at Geneva, was today appointed as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Angola.

7 August 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6669
SOC/4460

'ACT ON YOUR IDEALS' SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES YOUNG PEOPLE AT WORLD YOUTH FORUM

19980807 Problems without Passports Need Blueprints without Borders

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered today at the Third World Youth Forum of the United Nations System, in Braga, Portugal:

7 August 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6667

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES CAMBODIANS ON THEIR NATIONAL ELECTIONS

19980807 The following statement was issued today by a spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

7 August 1998

Press Release
GA/SM/54

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS EXPLOSIONS IN KENYA AND UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA WERE ACTS OF INSANE AND BARBAROUS TERROR

19980807 The following statement was issued today by the President of the General Assembly, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine):

6 August 1998

Press Release
SC/6558

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT SERIOUS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN AFGHANISTAN, DEMANDS URGENT END TO HOSTILITIES

19980806 Presidential Statement also Condemns Killing of Two Afghan Staff Members Of World Food Programme and UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Jalalabad

6 August 1998

Press Release
DCF/344

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE CLOSE TO CONSENSUS ON ESTABLISHING AD HOC COMMITTEE ON PROHIBITING PRODUCTION OF FISSILE MATERIAL, CHAIRMAN SAYS

19980806 (Reissued as received.)

6 August 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6664

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 5 AUGUST 1998

19980806

6 August 1998

Press Release
ORG/1269

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN AUGUST

19980806 The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held beginning in August, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

29 June-7 August United Nations Administrative Tribunal, Geneva