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SG/SM/6008

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GREAT SADNESS OVER DEATH OF FORMER GREEK PRIME MINISTER ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

24 June 1996


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SG/SM/6008


SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GREAT SADNESS OVER DEATH OF FORMER GREEK PRIME MINISTER ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

19960624 GENEVA, 23 June (UN Information Service) -- Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary-General has learned with great sadness of the death this morning of Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece.

GA/PAL/723

HARD-LINE POLICIES OF NEW ISR"LI GOVERNMENT THREATEN PEACE PROCESS, PALESTINE OBSERVER TELLS OPENING OF NORTH AMERICAN NGO SYMPOSIUM

24 June 1996


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GA/PAL/723


HARD-LINE POLICIES OF NEW ISRAELI GOVERNMENT THREATEN PEACE PROCESS, PALESTINE OBSERVER TELLS OPENING OF NORTH AMERICAN NGO SYMPOSIUM

19960624

The policies of the new, more hard-line Israeli Government, if implemented, could have a detrimental effect on the peace process, Mr. Nasser Al-Kidwa, Observer for Palestine said this morning, as the annual North American NGO Symposium on the Question of Palestine began its three-day session.

SG/SM/6009

EXTREME POVERTY OFFENDS MOST BASIC VALUES OF UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DIALOGUE ON POVERTY

24 June 1996


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SG/SM/6009


EXTREME POVERTY OFFENDS MOST BASIC VALUES OF UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DIALOGUE ON POVERTY

19960624 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Following is the text of the statement, translated from French, to be delivered by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of the Dialogue on Poverty, to take place at Geneva on 25 June: