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Press Release

SC/6528

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS NUCLEAR TESTS BY INDIA AND PAKISTAN

06/06/1998
Press Release
SC/6528


Security Council

3890th Meeting (AM)


       SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS NUCLEAR TESTS BY INDIA AND PAKISTAN


           Resolution 1172 (1998) Unanimously Adopted; Pakistan Says

  It Had Been Left with No Choice but to Exercise Its Nuclear Option

DSG/SM/8

'WE ASSUME SOLEMN BURDEN OF MAKING THIS HOUSE A HOME AND A HAVEN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS', DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES AT OPENING OF PALAIS WILSON

5 June 1998


Press Release
DSG/SM/8
HR/4365


'WE ASSUME SOLEMN BURDEN OF MAKING THIS HOUSE A HOME AND A HAVEN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS', DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES AT OPENING OF PALAIS WILSON

19980605 If Human Rights Are to Play Constructive Role for Peace, They Must Protect Promise of Pluralism, Louise Fréchette Emphasizes

Following is the text of the address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the opening of Palais Wilson, in Geneva today:

POP/670

WINNERS OF 1998 UNITED NATIONS POPULATION AWARD ANNOUNCED

5 June 1998


Press Release
POP/670


WINNERS OF 1998 UNITED NATIONS POPULATION AWARD ANNOUNCED

19980605

NEW YORK, 5 June (UNFPA) -- The Sabiny Elders Association of Uganda, which dramatically curtailed female genital mutilation in its area of Uganda, and Dr. Hugh H. Wynter of Jamaica, a prominent leader in the Caribbean for family planning programmes, will share the 1998 United Nations Population Award.