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GA/AB/3102

FIFTH COMMITTEE WARNED ABOUT TACTICS TO DESTROY INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE FROM WITHIN

31 October 1996


Press Release
GA/AB/3102


FIFTH COMMITTEE WARNED ABOUT TACTICS TO DESTROY INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE FROM WITHIN

19961031

The General Assembly would raise from the previous limit of $12,000 payments that could be made to United Nations system pension-drawing retirees to $22,000 per calendar year, should it adopt a draft decision approved this morning without a vote by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) as it considered human resources management.

GA/SHC/3369/

LARGE NUMBER OF RESERVATIONS TO WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION CAUSE FOR CONCERN, SAY SPEAKERS IN THIRD COMMITTEE CORRECTION

30 October 1996


Press Release
GA/SHC/3369/


LARGE NUMBER OF RESERVATIONS TO WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION CAUSE FOR CONCERN, SAY SPEAKERS IN THIRD COMMITTEE CORRECTION

19961030

In Press Release GA/SHC/3369, issued 29 October, the name of the representative of Ukraine, at the top of page 6, should read "OLEKSANDRA SAVCHENKO, Deputy Minister for Education of Ukraine".

SG/SM/6101

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO SEND SPECIAL ENVOY TO GREAT LAKES REGION

30 October 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/6101


SECRETARY-GENERAL TO SEND SPECIAL ENVOY TO GREAT LAKES REGION

19961030 The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary-General has informed the Security Council that he has decided to appoint a Special Envoy who will travel to the Great Lakes region in the first days of November and remain there for about one month.