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1997 United Nations Government News & Press Releases |
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15th December, 1997
ASSEMBLY INSISTS ON SURRENDER OF ALL INDICTEES TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Acting Without Vote, Also Reaffirms Right of Refugees, Displaced Persons To Return Voluntarily to Homes of Origin The General Assembly this morning insisted on the need to surrender all indictees to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and urged Member States to carry out their obligations under the Tribunal's...
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15th December, 1997
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, WITH NO DISSENT, ADOPTS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR SUPPRESSION OF TERRORIST BOMBINGS
Comprehensive Text Deals with State Obligations, Need For Preventive Cooperation, Questions of Detention, Extradition, Prosecution The General Assembly this afternoon adopted an International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, and urged all States to become parties to it. It took this action by adopting, without...
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12th December, 1997
GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT AS FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT
Acts on Reports of Third Committee; Adopts 78 Resolutions, Decisions on Broad Range of Social, Cultural, Humanitarian Questions The General Assembly reaffirmed the right to development as an integral part of fundamental human rights, by one of 78 proposals adopted this afternoon on the recommendation of the Third Committee (Social,...
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11th December, 1997
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ISSUES DOMINATE FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE, WITH DIFFERENCES OVER PACE, FORM, GOAL OF NEGOTIATIONS
Of 45 Disarmament Texts, 14 Concern Nuclear Weapons; Debate Multilateral, Bilateral Approaches to Nuclear Disarmament Issues of nuclear disarmament once again dominated the debate in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), as members sought to narrow differences over the pace, form and ultimate goal of those...
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10th December, 1997
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION HAD PROFOUND IMPACT ON HUMAN HISTORY, SAYS ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, BUT GAP REMAINS BETWEEN ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Human Rights Day Statement Urges Renewed Efforts To Turn High Principles into Reality, Ensuring Global Application of Standards Whenever a question arises about the main goal of the United Nations, one is bound to hear the famous quotation from the opening paragraph of the United Nations Charter: "to save succeeding generations from...
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10th December, 1997
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS AT UNITED NATIONS MARK BEGINNING OF YEAR-LONG OBSERVANCE OF FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION
Importance of Efforts towards Global Implementation Stressed By Secretary-General, Assembly President, First Lady of United States Human Rights Day was observed at the United Nations today with a special programme to launch a year of events to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly on 10 December 1948...
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10th December, 1997
ASSEMBLY DEMANDS COMPLETE HALT TO ALL ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, ACTING ON FOURTH COMMITTEE REPORTS
Adopts Texts on Israeli Practices, Palestine Relief Agency, Decolonization, Information, Peacekeeping, Space, Atomic Radiation The General Assembly this afternoon demanded a complete halt to construction of a new settlement at Jabal Abu Ghneim and of all Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories, as it took action...
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10th December, 1997
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION HAD PROFOUND IMPACT ON HUMAN HISTORY, SAYS ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, BUT GAP REMAINS BETWEEN ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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9th December, 1997
GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEFERS ACTION ON PROPOSAL TO ENHANCE STATUS OF PALESTINE OBSERVER AT UNITED NATIONS
Text Withdrawn after Vote Fails to Nullify Amendment; Six Resolutions Adopted on Question of Palestine, Situation in Middle East The General Assembly did not act this afternoon on a draft resolution that would have conferred on Palestine, in its capacity of observer, similar rights and privileges of participation in the work of the...
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9th December, 1997
SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX DRAFTS ON DEVELOPMENT MATTERS BY VOTE
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning approved six draft resolutions which contained the expression "sustained economic growth and sustainable development" by recorded votes requested by the representative of the United States. The drafts concerned industrial development, human resources development, women in...
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