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SEA/1575

JOACHIM KOCH (GERMANY), PRESIDENT OF SEABED COUNCIL FOR 1998

17 March 1998


Press Release
SEA/1575


JOACHIM KOCH (GERMANY), PRESIDENT OF SEABED COUNCIL FOR 1998

19980317

KINGSTON, 16 March -- Joachim Koch (Germany), who was elected today as President of the Council of the International Seabed Authority for 1998, has headed since 1983 the Division for Legal Questions Relating to Economic Activities in the High Seas and Polar Regions, in the German Ministry of Economics.

SG/SM/6492

HUMAN RIGHTS 'MUST BE PURSUED TO THE VERY END', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT GENEVA FORUM

17 March 1998


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SG/SM/6492
HR/4356


HUMAN RIGHTS 'MUST BE PURSUED TO THE VERY END', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT GENEVA FORUM

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement delivered at the opening of the Forum on Mainstreaming Human Rights in the United Nations in Geneva on Monday, 16 March:

SG/SM/6489

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

17 March 1998


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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:

L/2859

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE CONVENES FINAL SESSION BEFORE JUNE/JULY ROME CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

16 March 1998


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L/2859


PREPARATORY COMMITTEE CONVENES FINAL SESSION BEFORE JUNE/JULY ROME CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

19980316

The Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court convened its sixth session this morning and immediately went into informal consultations on whether there should be instruments other than the statute of the court.

SG/SM/6487

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PREVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS MUST MARK TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

16 March 1998


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SG/SM/6487
HR/4355


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PREVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS MUST MARK TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

19980316 Addressing Opening of Human Rights Commission's Session, Stresses Need to Uphold Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Following is the text of the statement today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva: