Press Release

23 September 1997

Press Release
GA/9302/

23 September 1997

Press Release
HR/4338

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD OPENS SIXTEENTH SESSION

19970923

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 22 September (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the expert panel in charge of monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened its sixteenth session this morning by adopting its agenda items and programme of work.

23 September 1997

Press Release
GA/9306

SPEAKERS FOCUS ON UNITED NATIONS REFORM, INCLUDING SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM, AS ASSEMBLY'S GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES

19970923 European Union Says Assembly Must Examine Secretary-General's Reform Proposals In 'Integrated Manner and as a Package' for UN to be Renovated

23 September 1997

Press Release
DCF/316

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING FOR SIGNATURE OF COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY MARKED ON 24 SEPTEMBER

19970923 Preparatory Commission Reviews Its First Six Months In Implementing Treaty

(Reissued as received.)

23 September 1997

Press Release
TAD/1849

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD) ISSUES 'LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 1997 REPORT'

19970923 ADVANCE RELEASE Finds Institutional, Economic Reforms Generating Growth in Some Countries; Cites Impact of Agricultural Sector, Effects of State Collapse

23 September 1997

Press Release
GA/9307

SECURITY COUNCIL MUST BE REORGANIZED TO ENHANCE ITS LEGITIMACY, EFFECTIVENESS, FOREIGN MINISTER OF JAPAN TELLS ASSEMBLY

19970923 Central American Presidents Stress Regional Union; President Of Paraguay, Foreign Ministers of Finland, Portugal, Also Speak

22 September 1997

Press Release
GA/9302

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEMBER STATES TO REACH CONSENSUS ON HIS REFORM PROPOSALS BEFORE END OF SESSION, TO BE KNOWN AS 'REFORM ASSEMBLY'

19970922 United States President Says He Is Working with Congress On Legislation that 'Will Allow Us to Pay Off the Bulk of Our Arrears'

22 September 1997

Press Release
SG/SM/6334
GA/9304

'LET THIS BE THE REFORM ASSEMBLY', SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSING FIFTY-SECOND SESSION

19970922 Kofi Annan Calls on 'Some of You' to Comply with Legal Obligations And Pay Arrears; Calls on 'All of You' to Move Expeditiously on Reform Package

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as he introduced his annual report on the work of the Organization to the General Assembly this morning:

22 September 1997

Press Release
GA/9305

UNITED NATIONS REFORM EFFORTS MUST NOT FALL VICTIM TO NARROW PREFERENCES OF CHOSEN FEW, PAKISTAN'S PRIME MINISTER TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19970922 Statements Also Made By Presidnets of Nicaragua, Ukraine; Foreign Ministers of Norway, South Africa, Czech Republic, Georgia, Iran

22 September 1997

Press Release
SG/2039
ORG/1248

UNITED NATIONS MUST UNDERGO FUNDAMENTAL, NOT PIECEMEAL, REFORM, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN REPORT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19970922 Three-Part Report on Organization's Work, Reviews Forces Shaping World Agenda, Efforts to Adopt and Guide Them