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.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/818

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION HEARS STATEMENTS ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT SITUATION IN KOSOVO

19980318 Also Begins Consideration of Situation in Occupied Arab Territories

(Reissued as received.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
TAD/1855

LEADING MULTINATIONALS VOTE THEIR CONFIDENCE IN ASIA

19980318

GENEVA, 18 March (UNCTAD) -- Results released today of a worldwide survey of leading multinational companies find that overall confidence in East and South-East Asia as a destination for foreign direct investment remains unshaken, despite the financial crisis in the region.

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/816

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION

19980318 Secretary-General Warns That Human Rights Violations Remain 'Widespread Reality'

(Reproduced as received.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
SEA/1577

TADEUSZ BACHLEDA-CURUS (POLAND), PRESIDENT OF SEABED ASSEMBLY FOR 1998

19980318

KINGSTON, 17 March -- Tadeusz Bachleda-Curus (Poland), who was elected today as President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority for 1998, is Vice-Secretary and Principal Geologist of the State in the Ministry of Environment Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry of Poland.

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/819

RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS AND COMMISSION WORKING METHODS DISCUSSED AT EVENING HUMAN RIGHTS SESSION

19980318 (Reissued as received.)

18 March 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/817

PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE ADDRESSES COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

19980318

(Reissued as received.)

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

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6488

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.

Bonjour mes amis. This is a real homecoming.