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Press Release

HR/4379

WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS TO HOLD SIXTEENTH SESSION, 27 - 31 JULY, GENEVA

22 July 1998


Press Release
HR/4379


WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS TO HOLD SIXTEENTH SESSION, 27 - 31 JULY, GENEVA

19980722

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 22 July (UN Information Service) -- The Working Group on Indigenous Populations will hold its sixteenth annual session from 27 to 31 July and will focus this year on issues related to indigenous education and language.

SG/SM/6648

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONSIDERS AWARD FROM GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT AS TRIBUTE TO THOSE COMMITTED TO PEACE

21 July 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6648
CA/16


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONSIDERS AWARD FROM GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT AS TRIBUTE TO THOSE COMMITTED TO PEACE

19980721 Following is the text of the statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon receiving the "Orden del Quetzal", the highest honour the Government of Guatemala could bestow on a civilian, in Guatemala City on Monday, 20 July:

I am deeply honoured to receive the "Orden del Quetzal".

ECOSOC/5785

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL IS TOLD FULLEST EXPERIENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REQUIRES FREEDOM FROM POVERTY

21 July 1998


Press Release
ECOSOC/5785


ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL IS TOLD FULLEST EXPERIENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REQUIRES FREEDOM FROM POVERTY

19980721

Without freedom from poverty, human rights could not be fully experienced, the Legal Adviser of the World Bank told the Economic and Social Council this morning, as it continued consideration of follow-up to the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.