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SG/SM/6140

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES STAFF TO STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE, STRESSING UN PERFORMANCE WILL TURN DETRACTORS INTO SUPPORTERS

9 January 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6140


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES STAFF TO STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE, STRESSING UN PERFORMANCE WILL TURN DETRACTORS INTO SUPPORTERS

19970109 `Nobody Argues with Success', Says Kofi Annan In Address to Staff; `My Mission, However Impossible, Is Your Mission Too'

The following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to United Nations staff today:

Friends and colleagues,

HR/4320

HUMAN RIGHTS FIELD OPERATION IN RWANDA REPORTS DETENTION OF 5460 RETURNEES

8 January 1997


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HR/4320


HUMAN RIGHTS FIELD OPERATION IN RWANDA REPORTS DETENTION OF 5460 RETURNEES

19970108

GENEVA, 7 January (UN Information Service) -- Some 5,460 recent Rwandan returnees were being held in detention throughout Rwanda as of 31 December 1996, according to a 6 January report from the Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR) of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

SC/6310

SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS COMMITTEES ELECT OFFICERS FOR 1997

7 January 1997


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SC/6310


SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS COMMITTEES ELECT OFFICERS FOR 1997

19970107 NEW YORK, 6 January (Department of Political Affairs) -- On 6 January, the President of the Security Council, Hisashi Owada (Japan), convened meetings of the Council's Sanctions Committees, which are composed of all members of the Council, to elect their respective bureaux for 1997.

The composition of the elected bureaux is as follows: