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Press Release

REC/9

ESCAP POPULATION INFORMATION PROJECT ON ROAD TO GREATER SELF-RELIANCE

9 September 1997


Press Release
REC/9


ESCAP POPULATION INFORMATION PROJECT ON ROAD TO GREATER SELF-RELIANCE

19970909

BANGKOK, 8 September (UN Information Service) -- A meeting starting today in Beijing will mark a major step in transferring more responsibility from the secretariat of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to a member of a multi-country population information network.

DCF/315

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES 1997 SESSION

9 September 1997


Press Release
DCF/315


CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONCLUDES 1997 SESSION

19970909

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 9 September (UN Information Service) -- The Conference on Disarmament ended this morning its 1997 session, following months of intense debate over which subjects deserved its immediate attention.

UNITED STATES FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS ON 10 DECEMBER

9 September 1997


Press Release


UNITED STATES FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS ON 10 DECEMBER

19970909 (Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

The First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, will visit Headquarters on Wednesday, 10 December, Human Rights Day, to address a special programme to launch the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the first of two keynote speakers.