Press Release

9 December 1996

Press Release
HR/4314

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTEENTH SESSION

19961209 Issues Recommendations on Reports of Dominican Republic, Portugal (Macau), Belarus, Finland, and United Kingdom (Hong Kong)

9 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9193

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SEEKS MAXIMUM SUPPORT FOR LAW OF SEA CONVENTION; NON-SIGNATORY STATES ASKED TO JOIN

19961209

Other Texts Express Concern at Over-Fishing; Violations Of Global Moratorium on Use of Large-Scale Drift-Nets on High Seas

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/AB/3123

FIFTH COMMITTEE ALLOCATES $242 MILLION TO PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FOR FIRST HALF OF 1997

19961206

The General Assembly would appropriate and apportion almost $242 million gross to maintain three peace-keeping missions in the former Yugoslavia for the first half of 1997, if it adopts three draft resolutions approved without a vote this morning by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9189

CONCRETE MEASURES AND 'RENEWED SENSE OF OUTRAGE' NEEDED TO END TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY

19961206 Assembly Observes International Day for Abolition of Slavery, Adopts Texts on New And Restored Democracies, New Agenda for Africa

6 December 1996

Press Release
SOC/CP/194

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN STOLEN VEHICLES CONCLUDES IN WARSAW

19961206

VIENNA, 4 December (UN Information Service) -- Representatives of law- enforcement agencies in 31 countries, insurance industries and car manufacturers ended a two-day United Nations conference in Warsaw yesterday with a strong call for new measures to combat the growing transnational trade in stolen vehicles.

6 December 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6121

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ACTION TO ADDRESS CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY, IN STATEMENT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961206 Following is the text of the statement of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the General Assembly on the occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 6 December:

6 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9190

STATEMENT BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

19961206 Following is the statement by the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia) to commemorate the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 6 December 1996:

6 December 1996

Press Release
DC/2572

6 December 1996

Press Release
SOC/CP/194

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN STOLEN VEHICLES CONCLUDES IN WARSAW

19961206

VIENNA, 4 December (UN Information Service) -- Representatives of law- enforcement agencies in 31 countries, insurance industries and car manufacturers ended a two-day United Nations conference in Warsaw yesterday with a strong call for new measures to combat the growing transnational trade in stolen vehicles.

5 December 1996

Press Release
GA/9185

NEED FOR IMPROVED EFFORTS TO REMOVE ANTI-PERSONNEL LAND-MINES STRESSED THIS MORNING IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

19961205

Continued Existence of Some 110 Million Unexploded Mines Worldwide Described as "The War That Never Ends"