Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali left New York on Saturday, 25 November, for visits to Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Benin and Cote d'Ivoire.
* General Assembly calls on all States to promote objectives of Zone of Peace and Cooperation in South Atlantic.
A solemn meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will be held on Wednesday, 29 November, to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
The Security Council this afternoon called for an immediate end to the fighting in Sierra Leone and urged the Revolutionary United Front whose attempt to overthrow the Government in 1991 began the conflict, to take advantage of the Secretary-General's offer of good offices to facilitate negotiations.
"Cuba considered itself surrounded by forces "which are hostile to the Government and the system", the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cuba, Carl Johan Groth, told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this morning, as it continued its consideration of human rights questions. He added that when a country felt threatened, it was less likely to change.
