Press Release

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6491
AFR/46

MALIAN EXPERIENCE POINTS TO VIRTUES OF PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY AND CLOSE COORDINATION WITHIN UN SYSTEM, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

19980317 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement delivered in Geneva today at the ceremony to launch the publication by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) of the book A Peace of Timbuktu: Democratic Governance, Development and African Peacemaking:

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.

17 March 1998

Press Release
DCF/329

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.

17 March 1998

Press Release
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:

17 March 1998

Press Release
SAG/3
UNEP/24

95 COUNTRIES AGREE ON NEW INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON DANGEROUS CHEMICALS AND PESTICIDES

19980317 (Reissued as received)

17 March 1998

Press Release
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:

17 March 1998

Press Release
GA/9399

EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION CONSIDERS MECHANISM TO ENSURE ISRAEL'S COMPLIANCE WITH GENEVA CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN WAR TIME

19980317 Draft Resolution Would Again Call For Meeting of Convention's High Contracting Parties

17 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6488/Rev.1*

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:

Good morning my friends. This is a real homecoming.