Press Release

20 March 1996

Press Release
HR/CT/456

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF REPORT OF SPAIN

19960320

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was part and parcel of Spain's domestic legal order and was directly invoked in the courts, the Human Rights Committee was told this afternoon by that country's delegation, as it began consideration of Spain's fourth periodic report.

20 March 1996

Press Release
WFP/1030

20 March 1996

Press Release
DCF/256

ESTABLISHMENT OF AD HOC COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROPOSED AT CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

19960320 (Delayed in transmission.)

20 March 1996

Press Release
HR/CN/709

20 March 1996

Press Release
TAD/1815

19 March 1996

Press Release
DH/2104

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 19 March 1996

19960319 * Security Council demands Iraq allow immediate unrestricted access to Special Commission to conduct investigations; calls on Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone to accept outcome of country's elections.

* Conclusion of comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty cannot be deferred any longer, Secretary-General tells Disarmament Conference.

19 March 1996

Press Release
HR/CT/453

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERING REPORT OF MAURITIUS

19960319 Government Committed to Principles of Separation Of Powers, Independence of Judiciary, Attorney General Says

19 March 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/5927

CONCLUSION OF COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST-BAN CANNOT BE DEFERRED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

19960319 ADVANCE TEXT Following is the text of the address, translated from French, by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Conference on Disarmament at Geneva on 19 March:

19 March 1996

Press Release
DCF/257

19 March 1996

Press Release
HR/CN/704

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF DEMOCRACY AND PROBLEMS POSED BY CONFLICTS WITHIN STATES AT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SESSION

19960319 Gilberto Vergne Saboia, of Brazil, Elected Chairman of Fifty-Second Session