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Press Release

DEV/2112

WARSAW MEETING WILL SHARE EXPERIENCES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

17 May 1996


Press Release
DEV/2112
HAB/117


WARSAW MEETING WILL SHARE EXPERIENCES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

19960517

NEW YORK, 16 May (DDSMS) -- Mayors and senior officials of a number of large cities in central and eastern Europe are to attend a United Nations meeting on metropolitan and municipal governance in Warsaw at the end of next week.

SOC/4390

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO HOLD SPECIAL SESSION IN NEW YORK, 21-30 MAY

17 May 1996


Press Release
SOC/4390


COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO HOLD SPECIAL SESSION IN NEW YORK, 21-30 MAY

19960517 Background Release

The Commission for Social Development, the body with the central role in the follow-up to the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, will hold an eight-day special session at Headquarters beginning on 21 May to review its mandate, terms of reference and scope of work, and to elaborate its multi-year programme of activity to the year 2000.

SG/SM/5987

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UN AND REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS ON ISSUES OF PEACE-KEEPING, MAJOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL PROBLEMS

16 May 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/5987


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UN AND REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS ON ISSUES OF PEACE-KEEPING, MAJOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL PROBLEMS

19960516 ADVANCE TEXT

Following is the text of the statement to be made by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Moscow on Friday, 17 May: