Press Release

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2794

RURAL DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, CUTS ON MILITARY EXPENDITURES, ENDING CIVIL STRIFE AMONG ISSUES RAISED AS SECOND COMMITTEE DEBATES END OF POVERTY

19971112 Drafts on Review of Habitat Agenda in 2001, Women in Development, Implementation of Programme of Action on Small Island States Introduced

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/AB/3191

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3444

THIRD COMMITTEE HEARS REPORTS ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

19971112 Also Hears of Human Rights Situations In Afghanistan, Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti

12 November 1997

Press Release
SG/SM/6390
UNEP/17*

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES 'UNSTINTING COMMITMENT' OF BARBARA PYLE, AS HE AWARDS 1997 UNEP SASAKAWA ENVIRONMENT PRIZE

19971112 Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement, as he awarded the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sasakawa Environment Prize to Barbara Pyle in New York on 12 November:

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/9353

IRAQ'S REFUSAL OF ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL INSPECTION MAY INDICATE 'DESIRE TO CONCEAL SOMETHING', GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TOLD

19971112 Concern Expressed as Debate Begins on International Atomic Energy Agency; Director-General Also Notes Environmental Benefits in Use of Nuclear Power

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2795

ERADICATING POVERTY IS ETHICAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE OF HUMANKIND, OBSERVER FOR HOLY SEE TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE

19971112

12 November 1997

Press Release
HR/CT/500

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SIXTH-FIRST SESSION

19971112

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 7 November (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee ended its autumn session today by issuing a series of specific measures to promote the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Senegal, Jamaica, Iraq, Sudan, Belarus and Lithuania.

12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/DIS/3096/

URGENT CONSIDERATION OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AT REGIONAL LEVEL CALLED FOR BY FIRST COMMITTEE CORRECTION

19971112

The main headline of Press Release GA/DIS/3096 of 11 November should have read as indicated above.

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12 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SPD/120

12 November 1997

Press Release
SG/SM/6391
ORG/1256*

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES PROGRESS IN QUIET REVOLUTION OF REFORM, IN STATEMENT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19971112 Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered today to the forty-ninth meeting of the General Assembly, as it considered agenda item 157 on United Nations reform: measures and proposals: