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UNEP/19

MINISTERS FROM SEVEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO MEET IN DAKAR, SENEGAL, TO DISCUSS ENVIRONMENT

24 November 1997


Press Release
UNEP/19


MINISTERS FROM SEVEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO MEET IN DAKAR, SENEGAL, TO DISCUSS ENVIRONMENT

19971124

NAIROBI, 20 November (UNEP) -- African Ministers will meet in Dakar, Senegal, this week to consider legal instruments which, if adopted, will formalize the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment as the region's intergovernmental body on the environment.

SG/SM/6404

FAILURE OF CONGRESS TO ACT ON PAYMENT OF ARREARS RAISES TROUBLING QUESTIONS ABOUT UNITED STATES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

24 November 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6404


FAILURE OF CONGRESS TO ACT ON PAYMENT OF ARREARS RAISES TROUBLING QUESTIONS ABOUT UNITED STATES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

19971124 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address on "Tomorrow's United Nations" to be delivered tonight at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University:

DEV/2176

ETHICS IN PUBLIC SERVICE REVIEWED AT UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR IN GREECE, COMMITMENT TO ACCOUNTABILITY PLEDGED

21 November 1997


Press Release
DEV/2176


ETHICS IN PUBLIC SERVICE REVIEWED AT UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR IN GREECE, COMMITMENT TO ACCOUNTABILITY PLEDGED

19971121 Senior Government Officials from Central and Eastern Europe Discuss Professionalism and Values in Changing Environment

NEW YORK, 21 November (DESA) -- A conference on ethics in public service, organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), ended yesterday in Thessaloniki, Greece.

SG/SM/6395

SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HAILS FRENCH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY'S COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AT TIME OF INCREASING GLOBALIZATION

21 November 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6395


SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HAILS FRENCH-SPEAKING COMMUNITY'S COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AT TIME OF INCREASING GLOBALIZATION

19971121 The following is a message, translated from French, from Secretary- General Kofi Annan which was read out on 14 November by former United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, at the Francophone Summit in Hanoi: