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TAD/1803

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GA/8964

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

* 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

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ANV/220

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PREPARATORY COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX-PART DRAFT DECLARATION, CONCLUDES WORK

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GA/8965

CONTINUING FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEETINGS, SPEAKERS STRESS NEED FOR REVITALIZED UN TO RESOLVE NEW KINDS OF CONFLICTS

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.

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GA/8963

SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS AT HEADQUARTERS