Press Release

23 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/503

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE APPROVES LIST OF ISSUES TO BE RAISED WHEN IT CONSIDERS REPORTS OF ECUADOR, FINLAND

19980323 Will Begin Consideration of Country Reports Tomorrow, with Third Periodic Report of Cyprus

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon approved the list of issues to be taken up when it considers the reports of Ecuador and Finland on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

23 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6499

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, IN REMARKS TO YOUTH IN BEIRUT

19980323 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks to youth and students at Beirut on 21 March:

Thank you all for being here. I am delighted to see so many young faces here before me today. Wherever I go as Secretary-General, I find one of the most rewarding kind of encounters to be those with young people like yourselves.

23 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/823

MINISTERS FROM NETHERLANDS, BELARUS AND LATVIA ADDRESS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

19980323 Debate Continues on Occupied Territories, Right to Self-Determination

(Reissued as received.)

23 March 1998

Press Release
POP/665
REC/22

HIGH-LEVEL UNITED NATIONS MEETING ON POPULATION TO BE HELD IN BANGKOK, 24-27 MARCH

19980323 (Reissued as received.)

23 March 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3221

23 March 1998

Press Release
PI/1057

UNITED NATIONS ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE SEEKS STORIES OF STUDENT ACTIONS IN SUPPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

19980323 UN CyberSchoolBus to Compile Stories As Source of Inspiration for New Action

23 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6500

UNITED NATIONS FORCE ON ISRAEL, SYRIA BORDER HELPS KEEP PEACE, PREVENT INSTABILITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS TROOPS

19980323 Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his visit to Al-Fawar Camp of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria on 22 March:

23 March 1998

Press Release
GA/9401

23 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/502

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS STRESSES NEED FOR FOLLOW-UP BY STATES ON OBSERVATIONS BY HUMAN RIGHT COMMITTEE

19980323 Message Read Out at Opening of Current Session; Committee Also Approves Provisional Agenda, Hears Working Group Report

21 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6495
OBV/39

VICTORY OVER APARTHEID NO EXCUSE FOR COMPLACENCY IN EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

19980321 ADVANCE RELEASE Message on International Day for Elimination of Discrimination Stresses Government's Role in Building Tolerant, Equal Societies

Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March: