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SG/SM/6546

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IS SACRED PLACE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LUNCHEON IN NAIROBI

4 May 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6546


NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IS "SACRED PLACE", SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LUNCHEON IN NAIROBI

19980504 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's toast at a luncheon today hosted by the Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, Francis X. Ole Kaparo, on Nairobi:

SEA/1586

COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 4 - 15 MAY

1 May 1998


Press Release
SEA/1586


COMMISSION ON LIMITS OF CONTINENTAL SHELF TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 4 - 15 MAY

19980501 Background Release

NEW YORK, 1 May (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) -- The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will examine the technical guidelines for submissions by States claiming jurisdiction over wide continental shelves when it meets at Headquarters from 4 to 15 May.

HR/4359

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD TWENTIETH SESSION AT GENEVA, 4 - 22 MAY

1 May 1998


Press Release
HR/4359


COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD TWENTIETH SESSION AT GENEVA, 4 - 22 MAY

19980501 Background Release Panel Scheduled to Consider Reports by France, Norway, Guatemala, New Zealand, Germany, Peru, Panama, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Israel

(Reissued as received.)

ENV/DEV/478

COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HEARS CALLS FOR TRANSFER OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGIES

1 May 1998


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ENV/DEV/478


COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HEARS CALLS FOR TRANSFER OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGIES

19980501 Concludes High-Level Segment

The transfer of environmentally sound technologies from developed to developing countries should be accompanied by transfer of the capacity to maintain them, the Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism of South Africa told the Commission this morning.