Speakers Say Anniversary Must Address UN Finances In Addition to Reform, Revitalization, Democratization
Following is the text of the toast by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, on behalf of those present, at the luncheon for heads of State and government, at Headquarters on 23 October:
It is a privilege for me to stand next to one of the greatest Africans that has ever lived -- after Hannibal. Hannibal was the African from North Africa who thought he should civilize the Europeans. Now, the next greatest African after him is the Secretary-General here, who has become Secretary-General of the whole world, which is a very big honour for us.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:
At 5 p.m. today the Secretary-General met His Royal Highness Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Second Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, also attended the meeting.
* 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
The challenge of peacefully resolving new kinds of conflicts should inspire the United Nations as it faced the new millennium, the General Assembly was told this afternoon as it continued its commemorative meeting on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary.
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.
