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HR/CN/738

POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

16 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/738


POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960416

GENEVA, 15 April (UN Information Service) -- One of the reasons for the utter failure of communism was its underestimation of the value of human dignity and the inalienable rights of the human person, the Foreign Minister of Poland told the Commission on Human Rights this afternoon.

SOC/NAR/723

1996 SOTIROFF AWARD PRESENTED TO FORMER INCB PRESIDENT BETTY GOUGH

16 April 1996


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SOC/NAR/723


1996 SOTIROFF AWARD PRESENTED TO FORMER INCB PRESIDENT BETTY GOUGH

19960416

VIENNA, 16 April -- Betty Gough, a former President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), has been chosen to receive the Serge Sotiroff Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to international drug control efforts. A certificate and medallion will be presented to Ms. Gough at a ceremony in Vienna later this year.

SOC/NAR/725

COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS BEGINS SESSION IN VIENNA

16 April 1996


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SOC/NAR/725


COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS BEGINS SESSION IN VIENNA

19960416 (Reproduced as received from the UN Information Service.)

VIENNA, 16 April -- "We must take action against every form of drug abuse and illicit drug traffic", the Chairman of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Helmut Butke (Germany), urged as the Commission began its thirty-ninth session in Vienna.

SOC/NAR/722

COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS TO HOLD THIRTY-NINTH SESSION IN VIENNA, 16-25 APRIL

16 April 1996


Press Release
SOC/NAR/722


COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS TO HOLD THIRTY-NINTH SESSION IN VIENNA, 16-25 APRIL

19960416 Background Release Issues Include How to Reduce Narcotic Crops and Demand for Drugs, Combat Spread of Amphetamine-type Stimulants, Strengthen Current Strategy

(Reproduced as received from the UN Information Service.)

SG/SM/5959

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE TO FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL SESSION OF ECE

16 April 1996


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SG/SM/5959
ECE/470


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE TO FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL SESSION OF ECE

19960416 Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's message to the opening today of the fifty-first session of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva: