Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Press Release

REF/1133

UNHCR NEEDS $60 MILLION FOR LIBERIA

1 March 1996


Press Release
REF/1133


UNHCR NEEDS $60 MILLION FOR LIBERIA

19960301 GENEVA, 1 March (UNHCR) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) made an urgent appeal today for $60 million for its voluntary repatriation programme in Liberia for 18 months.

The appeal coincided with the arrival in Abidjan of High Commissioner Sadako Ogata for a week-long visit to Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, home to over 1 million Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees.

SC/6186/Rev.1*

NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN MARCH

29 February 1996


Press Release
SC/6186/Rev.1*


NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN MARCH

19960229 In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following new Chairmen of United Nations security bodies will take office on 1 March:

SECURITY COUNCIL

Legwaila Joseph Legwaila (Botswana) will succeed Madeleine K. Albright (United States) as President of the Security Council.

MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE

SG/SM/5902

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES VALUE OF UN AS FORUM AND MECHANISM TO ADDRESS GLOBAL ISSUES IN ADDRESS TO RIO BRANCO INSTITUTE IN BRASILIA

29 February 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/5902


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES VALUE OF UN AS FORUM AND MECHANISM TO ADDRESS GLOBAL ISSUES IN ADDRESS TO RIO BRANCO INSTITUTE IN BRASILIA

19960229 ADVANCE TEXT Following is a text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's address to the Rio Branco Institute in Brasilia on 29 February 1996:

It is a great pleasure for me to be here in Brasilia. I am especially pleased to have this opportunity to address the Rio Branco Institute.

DH/2091

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 29 February 1996

29 February 1996


Press Release
DH/2091


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 29 February 1996

19960229 * Security Council appoints new Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to take effect 1 October.

* Secretary-General says, in some cases, United Nations can provide valuable and cost-effective alternatives to unilateral action.

SC/6186

NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN MARCH

29 February 1996


Press Release
SC/6186


NEW CHAIRMEN OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY BODIES IN MARCH

19960229 In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following new Chairmen of United Nations security bodies will take office on 1 March:

SECURITY COUNCIL

Legwaila Joseph Legwaila (Botswana) will succeed Madeleine K. Albright (United States) as President of the Security Council.

MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE