Press Release

19 May 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6566
ECO/3

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GREATER COHERENCE BETWEEN TRADE AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM, IN STATEMENT TO WTO MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE

19980519 It Is Sacred Duty of United Nations System, WTO and Bretton Woods Institutions to Give People Back Sound Reasons to Hope, Kofi Annan Emphasizes

18 May 1998

Press Release
DC/2606/

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION CONCLUDES SESSION WITHOUT AGREEMENT ON ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON DISARMAMENT

19980518 CORRECTION

In Press Release DC/2606 of 28 April the last paragraph on page 10, which continues on page 11, should read as follows:

18 May 1998

Press Release
GA/SM/41

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT STRESSES ROLE OF NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT AS KEY PLAYER ON INTERNATIONAL SCENE

19980518 Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine), in Message to Cartagena Meeting, Calls Active Involvement of NAM in World Affairs Most Encouraging Development

18 May 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3229

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES GENERAL DISCUSSION OF FINANCING OF SEVERAL PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

19980518

The Secretariat should explain its use of gratis personnel to negotiate contracts with troop-contributing countries, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this afternoon as it concluded its general discussion of the individual budgets of most United Nations peacekeeping operations.

18 May 1998

Press Release
SOC/4446

18 May 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3227

18 May 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6563

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REWARD OF WORKING IN SERVICE OF HUMANITY IS KNOWING ONE PERSON 'CAN TRULY MAKE A DIFFERENCE'

19980518 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY In Commencement Address at Macalester College, Kofi Annan Tells Members of Class of '98 to 'Go out and Make Your Difference in This World'

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's commencement address at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on 17 May:

18 May 1998

Press Release
GA/SM/40

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR STRENGTHENING OF COMMERCIAL COOPERATION AMONG COUNTRIES BASED ON MUTUAL BENEFIT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

19980518 In Message to WTO Second Ministerial Conference on Occasion Of Fiftieth Anniversary of International Multilateral Trading System

18 May 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3228

18 May 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6564

GREATEST THREAT TO GLOBAL UNITY IS 'THAT WE FAIL TO SEE BEYOND OURSELVES', SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

19980518 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Kofi Annan Stresses Most of Today's Major Problems Cannot be Addressed by Any Single Nation Acting Alone

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Cleveland Council on Foreign Relations, in Cleveland, Ohio, today: