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SG/SM/6058

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGACY OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

18 September 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/6058


SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGACY OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

19960918 Life and Works of United Nations Leader Commemorated In Exhibition Marking 35th Anniversary of His Death in Air Crash

This is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali today, when opening an exhibition in the Visitors' Lobby of the General Assembly building to mark the 35th anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld:

HR/CT/474

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD THIRTEENTH SESSION IN GENEVA

18 September 1996


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HR/CT/474


CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD THIRTEENTH SESSION IN GENEVA

19960918 Background Release

GENEVA, 17 September (UN Information Service) -- The promotion and protection of children's rights in Morocco, Nigeria, Uruguay, United Kingdom (Hong Kong), Mauritius and Slovenia will be the focus of discussion as the Committee on the Rights of the Child meets for its thirteenth session at Geneva from 23 September to 11 October.

SG/SM/6057

SECRETARY-GENERAL REGRETS 'SHRINKING INTEREST' IN GLOBAL NEWS, SAYS PUBLIC IS DENIED DEPTH OF COVERAGE IT DESERVES

17 September 1996


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SG/SM/6057


SECRETARY-GENERAL REGRETS 'SHRINKING INTEREST' IN GLOBAL NEWS, SAYS PUBLIC IS DENIED DEPTH OF COVERAGE IT DESERVES

19960917 Luncheon Audience Is Told Advances in Technology Have Done Little to Enhance International Understanding

This is the text of an address given at Headquarters today by Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Scholarship luncheon:

SEA/1520

ASSEMBLY OPENS SECOND PART OF SEABED SESSION; EXTENDS PROVISIONAL MEMBERSHIP OF STATES

6 August 1996


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SEA/1520


ASSEMBLY OPENS SECOND PART OF SEABED SESSION; EXTENDS PROVISIONAL MEMBERSHIP OF STATES

19960806 (Received from a UN Information Officer.)

KINGSTON, 5 August -- The Assembly of the International Seabed Authority began the second part of its second session this afternoon by agreeing to allow 30 countries to continue to participate in its work on a provisional basis.