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Press Release

L/2859

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

16 March 1998


Press Release
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


Press Release
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:

SG/T/2118

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D.C., 11-12 MARCH

13 March 1998


Press Release
SG/T/2118


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D.C., 11-12 MARCH

19980313

The Secretary-General departed to Washington, D.C on the morning of Wednesday, 11 March. He and his party had an unscheduled 30-minute meeting on arrival at 10 a.m at the Ronald Reagan airport with the United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Princeton Lyman.