Statements and Messages

2 July 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6014/Rev.1*
DC/2558

NOTHING SHOULD DETER ADOPTION OF COMPREHENSIVE TEST-BAN TREATY THIS YEAR, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DISARMAMENT ADVISORY BOARD

19960702 Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement to the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters yesterday, 1 July, in Geneva:

2 July 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6013

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS SYMPATHY TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN YEMEN

19960702 The following was issued yesterday, 1 July, by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is deeply saddened to learn of the toll in lives taken by the floods that recently struck Yemen causing extensive damage to many villages, towns and cities across the country.

28 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6011
ENV/DEV/371

26 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6010

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK ON UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BASE IN SAUDI ARABIA

19960626 (Received from the spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.)

LONDON, 26 June -- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was shocked to learn of the terrorist attack last night on a United States Air Force base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

26 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6010/Rev.1

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST MILITARY COMPOUND IN SAUDI ARABIA

19960626 (Received from the spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.)

LONDON, 26 June -- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was shocked to learn of the terrorist attack last night against a military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

26 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6007
SOC/NAR/742

SECRETARY-GENERAL EMPHASIZES PREVENTIVE EDUCATION IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DRUG ABUSE

19960626 ADVANCE RELEASE Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's message on the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26 June:

24 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6008

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GREAT SADNESS OVER DEATH OF FORMER GREEK PRIME MINISTER ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

19960624 GENEVA, 23 June (UN Information Service) -- Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary-General has learned with great sadness of the death this morning of Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece.

24 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6009

EXTREME POVERTY OFFENDS MOST BASIC VALUES OF UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DIALOGUE ON POVERTY

19960624 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Following is the text of the statement, translated from French, to be delivered by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the occasion of the Dialogue on Poverty, to take place at Geneva on 25 June:

20 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6006

17 June 1996

Press Release
SG/SM/6005
DCF/265

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES SATISFACTION AT DECISION OF DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE ON MEMBERSHIP EXPANSION

19960617

GENEVA, 17 June (UN Information Service) -- Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali regarding today's decision by the Conference on Disarmament on the expansion of its membership: