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Press Release

TAD/1833

TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD CREATES THREE NEW COMMISSIONS FOLLOWING DECISION BY UNCTAD IX

9 July 1996


Press Release
TAD/1833


TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD CREATES THREE NEW COMMISSIONS FOLLOWING DECISION BY UNCTAD IX

19960709

GENEVA, 8 July (UNCTAD) -- Meeting formally for the first time since the ninth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD IX), held in South Africa in May, the Trade and Development Board, UNCTAD's executive body, today established three subsidiary commissions and agreed on the provisional agenda of their first sessions.

SG/2025

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INTERNATIONAL ACTION TO PREVENT HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS

9 July 1996


Press Release
SG/2025


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INTERNATIONAL ACTION TO PREVENT HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS

19960709

GENEVA, 5 July (UN Information Service) -- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali today urged the international community to act effectively for the prevention of humanitarian disasters. He was speaking in Geneva at the invitation of the Humanitarian Liaison Working Group, an informal grouping of those nations which assist the United Nations in its humanitarian work.