Press Release

19 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6496
OBV/40

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR PREVENTION OF GROUNDWATER POLLUTION, IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD WATER DAY, 22 MARCH

19980319 Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of World Water Day, 22 March:

19 March 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2810

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE RESUMES SESSION TO CONSIDER FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

19980319 Deputy Secretary-General Stresses Need to Adjust UN Work to Reality of Problems of Today and Challenges of Future

19 March 1998

Press Release
SC/6487

SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES DECISION TO EXTEND INTERNATIONAL SUPERVISORY REGIME IN BRCKO, PENDING FINAL ARBITRATION PHASE AT END OF YEAR

19980319 Presidential Statement Underscores Importance Of Parties' Cooperation with International Supervisor

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/816

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION

19980318 Secretary-General Warns That Human Rights Violations Remain 'Widespread Reality'

(Reproduced as received.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
SEA/1577

TADEUSZ BACHLEDA-CURUS (POLAND), PRESIDENT OF SEABED ASSEMBLY FOR 1998

19980318

KINGSTON, 17 March -- Tadeusz Bachleda-Curus (Poland), who was elected today as President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority for 1998, is Vice-Secretary and Principal Geologist of the State in the Ministry of Environment Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry of Poland.

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/819

RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS AND COMMISSION WORKING METHODS DISCUSSED AT EVENING HUMAN RIGHTS SESSION

19980318 (Reissued as received.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/817

PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE ADDRESSES COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

19980318

(Reissued as received.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6494

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES TO UN STAFF NOT PERMITTED UNDER REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19980318 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

18 March 1998

Press Release
GA/SM/35
CA/14

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT EXPRESSES DISTRESS AT FATAL CRASH OF MINUGUA HELICOPTER IN WESTERN GUATEMALA

19980318 Following is the text of a statement issued yesterday, attributable to the Spokesman for General Assembly President Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine):

18 March 1998

Press Release
SEA/1576

'CRITICAL' FINANCIAL SITUATION CITED IN ASSEMBLY OF SEABED AUTHORITY; JAMAICAN OFFER ON HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCED

19980318 (Received from the International Seabed Authority.)