Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Statements and Messages

SG/SM/5814

SECRETARY-GENERAL SENDS MESSAGE TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL MEETING TO OBSERVE CLOSE OF UNITED NATIONS YEAR OF TOLERANCE

States Organization Should Continue To Show Prevailing Openness in World Offers Formidable Opportunity for Future

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's message to the special meeting of the General Assembly on 20 November, marking the end of the United Nations Year for Tolerance:

By solemnly deciding to declare 1995 the "United Nations Year for Tolerance", the United Nations sought to demonstrate -- by that very declaration -- its commitment and resolve in the service of the rights of the human person.

SG/SM/5816

FOR GREATER EFFECTIVENESS, UN SYSTEM MUST BE ABLE TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN STAFF OF HIGHEST CALIBRE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE

20 November 1995


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SG/SM/5816
GA/AB/3044


FOR GREATER EFFECTIVENESS, UN SYSTEM MUST BE ABLE TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN STAFF OF HIGHEST CALIBRE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS FIFTH COMMITTEE

19951120 Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's statement delivered this afternoon to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) under the item on the United Nations common system:

SG/SM/5809

SECRETARY-GENERAL DELIVERS LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW ON 'A NEW UNITED NATIONS OBJECTIVE: DEMOCRATIZATION'

10 November 1995


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SG/SM/5809


SECRETARY-GENERAL DELIVERS LECTURE AT UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW ON 'A NEW UNITED NATIONS OBJECTIVE: DEMOCRATIZATION'

19951110 (Received from the Spokeswoman for the Secretary-General in Europe.)

Following is the text of the lecture delivered by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at the University of Warsaw today:

It is a special honour for me to be invited here, to one of the great universities of Europe.

SG/SM/5811

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES EXECUTION OF NIGERIAN MINORITY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

10 November 1995


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SG/SM/5811


SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES EXECUTION OF NIGERIAN MINORITY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

19951110 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary General was shocked and appalled to learn of the execution by hanging of nine Nigerian minority-rights activists, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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