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9th December, 1997
GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGES HALT TO QUALITATIVE NUCLEAR WEAPON IMPROVEMENT, CALLS FOR ELIMINATION OF SUCH WEAPONS IN SPECIFIC TIME FRAME
Adopts 43 Resolutions, 2 Decisions on First Committee Recommendation; Texts Address Wide Range of Disarmament, International Security Issues The General Assembly urged the nuclear-weapon States to stop immediately the qualitative improvement, development, production and stockpiling of nuclear warheads and their delivery systems,...
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9th December, 1997
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CURRENT PHASE OF ITS WORK
Approves Texts on Anti-Desertification, Biodiversity, Climate Change Conventions; Decides Not To Take Action on Business and Development As it concluded the current phase of its deliberations before suspending its work, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this afternoon approved, without a vote, three draft resolutions...
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9th December, 1997
IN HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MESSAGE, HIGH COMMISSIONER SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION MUST BE GIVEN PRACTICAL EFFECT
Following is a message by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December: I am sending this message from Africa where I am visiting Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa -- three countries in a region which has suffered greatly and where the full enjoyment of human...
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8th December, 1997
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL, INDIVISIBLE, INTERDEPENDENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IN VIDEO MESSAGE TO INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS' ROUND TABLE
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Says Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Is 'a Living Document', Calls for Rededication to Its Tenets "Human rights are foreign to no culture and native to all nations", said Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in a video message to an international journalists round table on human rights, which...
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8th December, 1997
SECRETARY-GENERAL'S VISIT TO CANADA - 1-3 DECEMBER
The Secretary-General arrived in Ottawa, Canada, in the evening of Monday, 1 December, to begin a state visit there. He was greeted by the Governor General of Canada and his wife, Rom譠LeBlanc and Diana Fowler LeBlanc. In his welcoming remarks, the Governor General noted how well Canada knew the Secretary-General, not only...
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5th December, 1997
UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS GIVES THEM POWER, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS, IN MESSAGE ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION
Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the beginning of the fiftieth anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December: This is a day of celebration. Today we mark the beginning of the fiftieth anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In every part of the...
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5th December, 1997
ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SALUTES THOSE WHO GIVE TIME, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS TO HELP OTHERS, IN INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS DAY MESSAGE
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5th December, 1997
ASSEMBLY WOULD DECIDE TO CONVENE TWO-DAY RESUMED SESSION OF SECOND COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, BY DRAFT APPROVED
Committee also Recommends Convening Third LDCs Conference in 2001, Meeting of Experts on Landlocked and Transit Countries in 1999 by Other Texts The General Assembly would decide to convene a two-day resumed session of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) to solicit views from governments on required inputs from a broad...
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5th December, 1997
ASSEMBLY WOULD CONVENE THREE-DAY SPECIAL SESSION IN 1999 TO REVIEW ICPD OUTCOME, HOLD ANOTHER SESSION IN 2001 ON HABITAT AGENDA
As Recommended by Second Committee Drafts; Text on UNITAR also Approved The General Assembly would decide to convene a three-day special session from 30 June to 2 July 1999 to review and appraise the implementation of the Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, September 1994),...
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4th December, 1997
NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY TO BE OBSERVED AT HEADQUARTERS, 8 - 10 DECEMBER
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