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SG/A/623
10 May 1996


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SG/A/623
CA/121


DAVID STEPHEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS VERIFICATION MISSION IN GUATEMALA

19960510 Predecessor Leonardo Franco Is Praised by Secretary-General For Leadership of MINUGUA in Efforts to Advance Cause of Peace

This statement was issued today by the spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

SG/SM/5981
10 May 1996


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SG/SM/5981


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REFLECTIONS ON ADDRESS BY POPE JOHN PAUL II TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY LAST YEAR

19960510

Following is the text, translated from the French, of an address by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at a seminar held on 8 May on the address by his Holiness Pope John Paul II at the fiftieth session of the General Assembly:

PI/947
10 May 1996


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PI/947


UNITED STATES TELLS INFORMATION COMMITTEE DPI SHOULD HAVE RESOURCES NEEDED TO MEET CHALLENGES OF TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

19960510

In an age when new information technologies offered exciting new opportunities, the Department of Public Information should have the resources it needs to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, the representative of the United States said this morning, as the Committee on Information continued its general debate.

SG/SM/5983
9 May 1996


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SG/SM/5983


SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONFIDENT THAT UN'S VITAL ROLE WILL BE RECOGNIZED, CALLS ON US FOREIGN POLICY INSTITUTE CHIEFS AT LUNCHEON FOR SUPPORT

19960509

Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at a luncheon meeting with chiefs of United States foreign policy institutions on 8 May: