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These are the remarks of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali today on receiving a gift to the United Nations from the People's Republic of China:
On behalf of the United Nations, I express my deep gratitude to the Government of the People's Republic of China for this generous gift. We express our great admiration for the men and women whose artistic skills, imagination and energy brought it into being.
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DH/2005
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 22 October 1995
19951022 * United Nations General Assembly begins special session commemorating the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.* Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urges world leaders to give the United Nations a firm financial base.
* General Assembly President says supporting the UN should be a collective pledge of the special session.
Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement on the occasion of the hoisting of the flag of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at Headquarters on Saturday, 21 October:
Few images command so great a sense of collective strength and solidarity than the flags that line the United Nations. Today we are proud to have that of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to be one among them. It makes eloquent an association that began on 8 April 1993, when this new yet ancient country joined the United Nations.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali met with the following heads of State or Government on Saturday, 21 October;
9:30 a.m. President of Uganda, Youeri Kaguta Museveni;
10:45 a.m. President of Sierra Leona, Valentine E.M. Strasser
11 a.m. President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
11:30 a.m. President of Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo
11:45 a.m. President of Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoon
12:05 p.m. President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliev
3:05 p.m. President of Moldova, Mircea Snegur
Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of the ceremony at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, to award the Nansen Medal to Graça Machel for her outstanding contributions on behalf of refugee children:
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DH/2004
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 20 October 1995
19951020 * Over one hundred and fifty Heads of State and Government are expected in New York this weekend for special commemorative session of the United Nations.* There are alarming reports of human rights abuses against non- Serbs from the Banja Luka area, in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina.