Press Release

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.)

17 March 1998

Press Release
SAG/3
UNEP/24

95 COUNTRIES AGREE ON NEW INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON DANGEROUS CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES

19980317 (Reissued as received)

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6489
DC/2598

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PERSISTENCE OF CONFLICTS SINCE FALL OF BERLIN WALL NECESSITATES REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT MECHANISMS

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement, delivered today at the thirtieth session of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in Geneva:

17 March 1998

Press Release
GA/9399

EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION CONSIDERS MECHANISM TO ENSURE ISRAEL'S COMPLIANCE WITH GENEVA CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN WAR TIME

19980317 Draft Resolution Would Again Call For Meeting of Convention's High Contracting Parties

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6488/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, THANKS STAFF FOR SUPPORT

19980317 The following statement was made this morning by Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon arrival at the Palais des Nations, where he was met by a large gathering of the staff of the United Nations Office at Geneva:

Good morning my friends. This is a real homecoming.

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6493
CA/13

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES SORROW OVER CRASH OF UN HELICOPTER IN GUATEMALA, KILLING FIVE STAFF, WOUNDING FOUR

19980317 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

17 March 1998

Press Release
SEA/1574

SEABED AUTHORITY OPENS 1998 SESSION; COUNCIL ELECTS PRESIDENT

19980317

KINGSTON, 16 March -- The International Seabed Authority opened its fourth annual session at Kingston this afternoon with meetings of its principal organs -- the 137-member Assembly and the 36-member Council.

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6491
AFR/46

MALIAN EXPERIENCE POINTS TO VIRTUES OF PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY AND CLOSE COORDINATION WITHIN UN SYSTEM, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement delivered in Geneva today at the ceremony to launch the publication by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) of the book A Peace of Timbuktu: Democratic Governance, Development and African Peacemaking:

17 March 1998

Press Release
GA/9400

EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION OF ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS ISRAELI FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH PREVIOUS DEMANDS TO CEASE SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES

19980317 Again Recommends Meeting of Parties to Geneva Convention, To Enforce Its Application in Occupied Palestinian Territory