ECOSOC/5644
25 June 1996
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.
The Secretary-General has learned with great sadness of the death this morning of Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece.