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

19 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/501

19 March 1998

Press Release
GA/EF/2811

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES RESUMED SESSION

19980319 Speakers Stress Need to Address ODA Decline, External Debt Burden, Limited Concentration of FDI in Consideration on Financing for Development

19 March 1998

Press Release
SC/6488

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON LIBYA SANCTIONS REITERATES WILLINGNESS TO FACILITATE TRAVEL OF LIBYAN HAJ PILGRIMS

19980319 Also Expresses Willingness to Continue Considering Necessary Humanitarian Exemptions from Sanctions Regime

The following was issued today by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 748 (1992) concerning Libya:

19 March 1998

Press Release
GA/AB/3218

19 March 1998

Press Release
OS/1735

OUTER SPACE LEGAL SUBCOMMITTEE TO HOLD THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION IN VIENNA, 23 MARCH - 3 APRIL

19980319 Background Release

(Reissued as received.)

19 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/820

MINISTERS FROM NINE COUNTRIES ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19980319 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 18 March (UN Information Service ) -- Government ministers from Colombia, Poland, Algeria, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Senegal, Cameroon, Belgium, and Pakistan this morning outlined before the Commission on Human Rights the efforts of their countries to promote and protect fundamental freedoms.

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):