Press Release


SG/SM/5779

These are the remarks of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at a diner given by Mayor Rudolph Guiliani of New York City for heads of State and government at the World Trade Centre on 21 October:

 

I am here to pay tribute to New York City, the home of the United Nations.

And I salute New York City's welcome to the heads of State and government who have come form all over the world for this fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.

SG/SM/5774

Following is the text of a message sent today by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to Willy Claes, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization:

 

"Dear Mr. Secretary General

"I have learned with great regret of your resignation from the position of Secretary General of NATO.