Press Release

20 March 1998

Press Release
SC/6491

SPEAKERS URGE SECURITY COUNCIL TO LIFT ITS SANCTIONS AGAINST LIBYA STEMMING FROM 1988 BOMBING OF PAN AM FLIGHT 103

19980320 Council Asked to Suspend Sanctions Pending World Court Ruling Relating to Trial Venue for Libyan Suspects

20 March 1998

Press Release
SC/6489

SECURITY COUNCIL ENDORSES GRADUAL DOWNSIZING OF MILITARY COMPONENT OF ANGOLA OBSERVER MISSION, INCREASES POLICE OBSERVERS

19980320 Resolution 1157 (1998), Adopted Unanimously, Also Condemns UNITA Attacks on Mission Personnel

20 March 1998

Press Release
SG/T/2120

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S ACTIVITIES IN AMMAN, JORDAN, 17-18 MARCH

19980320 (Received from the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General.)

The Secretary-General began the first leg of his Middle East tour in Amman, where he arrived from Geneva in the evening of Tuesday, 17 March.

20 March 1998

Press Release
GA/SM/36
RD/882

ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL INTOLERANCE AND DISCRIMINATION IS COMMON MISSION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT STRESSES

19980320 In Message on Occasion of International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March

19 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/501

19 March 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2811

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES RESUMED SESSION

19980319 Speakers Stress Need to Address ODA Decline, External Debt Burden, Limited Concentration of FDI in Consideration on Financing for Development

19 March 1998

Press Release
SC/6488

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON LIBYA SANCTIONS REITERATES WILLINGNESS TO FACILITATE TRAVEL OF LIBYAN HAJ PILGRIMS

19980319 Also Expresses Willingness to Continue Considering Necessary Humanitarian Exemptions from Sanctions Regime

The following was issued today by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 748 (1992) concerning Libya:

19 March 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3218

19 March 1998

Press Release
OS/1735

OUTER SPACE LEGAL SUBCOMMITTEE TO HOLD THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION IN VIENNA, 23 MARCH - 3 APRIL

19980319 Background Release

(Reissued as received.)

19 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/820

MINISTERS FROM NINE COUNTRIES ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19980319 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 18 March (UN Information Service ) -- Government ministers from Colombia, Poland, Algeria, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Senegal, Cameroon, Belgium, and Pakistan this morning outlined before the Commission on Human Rights the efforts of their countries to promote and protect fundamental freedoms.