Press Release

15 October 1997

Press Release
HR/CT/498

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BEGINS NEW SESSION IN GENEVA, REPORTS ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IMPLEMENTATION

19971015 Background Release Senegal, Jamaica, Iraq, Sudan, Belarus, and Lithuania Will be Considered

15 October 1997

Press Release
AFR/21
SC/6428*

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SIERRA LEONE HOLDS FIRST MEETING

19971015 Council Resolution 1132 (1997) Asked Committee To Supervise Oil and Arms Embargo, Travel Restrictions on Military Junta

15 October 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3042

LEGAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES PLANS TO MARK CENTENNIAL, IN 1999, OF FIRST INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE

19971015 Draft Resolution Would Invite Netherlands and Russian Federation to Work on Programme of Action for Worldwide Observances

15 October 1997

Press Release
SG/SM/6360
OBV/14

SOME ENJOY UNIMAGINED WEALTH, OTHERS STILL ENDURE INTOLERABLE DEPRIVATION, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, OBSERVING DAY FOR POVERTY ERADICATION

19971015 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October 1997.

15 October 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2763

EXTERNAL DEBT PROBLEM IS 'ECONOMIC AIDS' OF LATIN AMERICA, REPRESENTATIVE OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TELLS SECOND COMMITTEE

19971015 Committee also Hears Calls For Expansion of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative

15 October 1997

Press Release
SG/SM/6358

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY BOMB ATTACK IN SRI LANKA

19971015 Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is appalled by the news of the bomb attack in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this morning and the resulting loss of life and destruction of property.

14 October 1997

Press Release
GA/L/3040/

SUPPORT EXPRESSED IN LEGAL COMMITTEE FOR EXPERT GROUP TO STUDY MEASURES TO HELP THIRD STATES AFFECTED BY SANCTIONS CORRECTION

19971014

The headline of Press Release GA/L/3040 of 13 October should read as above.

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14 October 1997

Press Release
WFP/1046

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME BARGE CONVOY ON NILE RIVER BRINGS AID TO HUNGER-RAVAGED REGION OF SOUTHERN SUDAN

19971014 Team Will Cross Front Lines to Deliver Supplies In Areas Contested by Government and Rebel Factions

14 October 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2761

IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL EXECUTION IN FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY STRESSED BY ZIMBABWE'S REPRESENTATIVE IN SECOND COMMITTEE

19971014 As Debate on World Economic Situation Continues, Role of UN In Counterbalancing Negative Effects of Globalization Addressed by Speakers

14 October 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3414

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DISPARITIES AMONG WORLD'S PEOPLE REPRESENT AN AFFRONT TO HUMAN DIGNITY, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19971014 Nepal Calls for Efforts to Correct Situation Marked by 'Islands of Prosperity Among Continents of Poverty'