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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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ANV/219

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FAILS TO REACH CONSENSUS ON DRAFT DECLARATION FOR COMMEMORATIVE MEETING

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FAO/3626

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GA/L/2870

AGGRIEVED STATES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD

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HR/CT/434

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.

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FAO/3624