Press Release

10 December 1997

Press Release
HR/4348
PI/1046

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS AT UNITED NATIONS MARK BEGINNING OF YEAR-LONG OBSERVANCE OF FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION

19971210 Importance of Efforts towards Global Implementation Stressed By Secretary-General, Assembly President, First Lady of United States

10 December 1997

Press Release
GA/SM/24/Rev.1
OBV/35/Rev.1

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION HAD PROFOUND IMPACT ON HUMAN HISTORY, SAYS ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, BUT GAP REMAINS BETWEEN ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

19971210 Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine) Urges Renewed Efforts To Turn High Principles into Reality, Ensuring Global Application of Standards

10 December 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3203

FIFTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES CONSIDERING IMPLICATIONS OF REFORM PROPOSALS ON UNITED NATIONS BUDGET AND PROGRAMMES

19971210 United States To Withhold Payment if Adjusted Ceiling Exceeded; Future Proposals by Group of 77 and China May Increase Budget Level

10 December 1997

Press Release
IHA/641

OBSERVATORIO SISMOLOGICO DEL SUR-OCCIDENTE (COLOMBIA), ANAND S. ARYA (INDIA) TO RECEIVE 1997 SASAKAWA/DHA DISASTER PREVENTION AWARD

19971210

10 December 1997

Press Release
GA/SM/24
OBV/35

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION HAD PROFOUND IMPACT ON HUMAN HISTORY, SAYS ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, BUT GAP REMAINS BETWEEN ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

19971210 Human Rights Day Statement Urges Renewed Efforts To Turn High Principles into Reality, Ensuring Global Application of Standards

9 December 1997

Press Release
GA/9378

GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEFERS ACTION ON PROPOSAL TO ENHANCE STATUS OF PALESTINE OBSERVER AT UNITED NATIONS

19971209 Text Withdrawn after Vote Fails to Nullify Amendment; Six Resolutions Adopted on Question of Palestine, Situation in Middle East

9 December 1997

Press Release
HR/4346
OBV/33

IN HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MESSAGE, HIGH COMMISSIONER SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION MUST BE GIVEN PRACTICAL EFFECT

19971209 Following is a message by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December:

9 December 1997

Press Release
GA/9373/

SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM SHOULD REDRESS LONG-STANDING IMBALANCE IN GEOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD

19971209 ADDENDUM

On page 13 of Press Release GA/9373 of 4 December, the following summary of the statement of the representatives of Slovenia (preceding the summary of the statement by the representative of San Marino) was inadvertently omitted:

9 December 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2808*

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CURRENT PHASE OF ITS WORK

19971209 Approves Texts on Anti-Desertification, Biodiversity, Climate Change Conventions; Decides Not To Take Action on Business and Development

9 December 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3202

FIFTH COMMITTEE DISCUSSES COMPOSITION OF SECRETARIAT, APPROVES TWO DRAFTS ON BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF TEXTS CURRENTLY BEFORE ASSEMBLY

19971209 Approved Drafts Concern Disarmament Research Institute and Economic and Social Council Decisions