Press Release

11 April 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5956

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES ESCALATION OF HOSTILITIES IN LEBANON

19960411 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary-General deplores the escalation in hostilities in Lebanon, in particular the retaliatory attack of the Israeli Defence Forces on Beirut. The Secretary-General deeply regrets all loss of civilian life.

11 April 1996

Press Release
GA/9055

ASSEMBLY AUTHORIZES $116 MILLION FOR MISSIONS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS

19960411 Also Adopts Resolutions on Administrative and Budgetary Aspects of Peace-keeping Financing, Scale of Assessments

11 April 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5954

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ESCALATION OF HOSTILITIES IN LIBERIA

19960411 The following was issued today by the Spokesman for the Secretary- General:

11 April 1996

Press Release
L/2785

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT DISCUSSES DRAFT SUMMARY OF CURRENT SESSION

19960411 Chairmen Says Intended to Reflect Issues, Problem Areas

The Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court this afternoon took up consideration of the draft summary of its proceedings.

11 April 1996

Press Release
HR/CN/734

MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF HAITI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF CUBA ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960411

GENEVA, 10 April (UN Information Service) -- The Minister of Justice and Public Security of Haiti, Pierre Max Antoine, told the Commission on Human Rights this morning that a National Commission of Truth and Justice was now investigating crimes committed during the period following the 1991 military coup d'état.

11 April 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5955

11 April 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5953

SECRETARY-GENERAL INAUGURATES RALPH BUNCHE CENTER AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY

19960411 Following is the text of a lecture delivered by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ralph Bunche Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C.:

I have come here to remember and to honour Ralph Bunche. A great international civil servant. A distinguished African-American. An outstanding human being.

10 April 1996

Press Release
DH/2119

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 10 April 1996

19960410 * Chernobyl: "worst disaster in history of nuclear power generation", Secretary-General says in message to International Conference on "One Decade after Chernobyl".

* Foreign intervention in Afghanistan thwarting efforts for peace, Security Council is told.

10 April 1996

Press Release
L/2783

10 April 1996

Press Release
HR/CN/731