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United Nations Daily Highlights 96-07-11United Nations Daily Highlights Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The United Nations Home Page at <http://www.un.org> - email: unnews@un.orgDAILY HIGHLIGHTSThursday, July 11, 1996This document is prepared by the Central News Section of the Department of Public Information and is updated every week-day at approximately 6:00 PM. HEADLINES
The Security Council has been discussing the report of the Secretary- General, which is a follow up to Security Council resolution 1054 on the question of the attempted assassination of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa, UN Spokesman Sylvana Foa said today. The Council has decided to consider, on the basis of the report, whether the Sudan had complied with the demands of the resolution and, if not, whether to adopt further measures to ensure compliance. The Security Council has determined that the three suspects involved are sheltered in the Sudan, Ms. Foa said. It has called on the Government of the Sudan to ensure their extradition. The Government of the Sudan claims that its investigation has produced no trace of two of the suspects and the identity of the third is unknown. Regarding the Security Council's demand that the Government of the Sudan, among other acts, desist from supporting terrorist activities, the Secretary-General's report states that the Government of the Sudan has asserted that it condemns terrorism and does not condone terrorist activities. The UN Spokesman said some forty countries have indicated measures they have adopted in implementing the different provisions of the resolution. The provisions were to come into effect on 10 May in the event of non- compliance on the part of the Government of the Sudan. The link between economic growth and human development would be the subject of the Human Development Report, 1996, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator James Gustave Speth has told the Economic and Social Council. He said this year's Report, to be issued next week, found that over time, it was extremely difficult to have human development without economic growth. Mr. Speth stressed that any poverty-eradication effort consider the need to promote economic growth by fostering an enabling international environment. "Common Efforts towards a Safer and Nuclear-Weapon-Free World", is the title of a United Nations conference on disarmament issues, to be held in Hiroshima, from 17 to 20 July, according to the Centre for Disarmament Affairs. The conference aims at providing the City of Hiroshima an informal setting for frank and open discussion of critical issues in the field of arms control, disarmament and confidence-building measures. Some 80 participants from governments, academic and research institutes, non-governmental organizations, elected representatives and the media are expected to attend. World Population Day is being observed today, 11 July, with special events on the theme of combating the spread of HIV/AIDS through reproductive health care and community and individual responsibility, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA says special events planned for the day, include rallies, speeches by national and local leaders, lectures, seminars and sporting events as well as radio, television and film programmes, newspaper and magazine supplements, special publications and exhibits. Many national television systems and local stations will broadcast "Changing Places", a 19-minute video which illustrates the effects of global urbanization as seen through the lives of women in Bangkok, Mexico City and Vancouver. The video is produced and distributed by the UNFPA. The Deputy Prime Minister of Republika Srpska has informed the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) that his Government supports the humanitarian project of collecting body remains in the Srebrenica area of Bosnia and Herzegovina that the Finnish team of forensic experts is about to undertake, according to UNMIBH spokesman Alex Ivanko. He says that the Republika Srpska authorities also undertook to provide security guarantees not just for the Finnish team but also for the Bosnian experts who are part of that team. Beginning early this week, the team of 20 investigators and experts from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia have been exhuming the victims buried in a number of alleged mass grave sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. The operation is expected to take up to three months and is conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor of the Tribunal with the assistance of many international organizations and national authorities. Christian Chartier, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) spokesman in the Hague, says the team will also closely cooperate with the International Protection Force (IFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and with UN Transitional Authority for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) in Croatia. The forensic side of work will be covered by the Boston-based non- governmental organization "Physician for Human Rights", he added. Mr. Chartier noted that the main purpose of the exhumations was to determine the time and cause of death of victims, identify them to the extent possible as well as collect any other physical evidence associated with the mass grave site. He said the undertaking was intended to make the Prosecution case stronger with regard to persons already indicted for the fall of Srebrenica. Mr. Chartier also reported that the Rule 61 hearings in cases against Karadzic and Mladic had been completed earlier this week in the Hague with final remarks by the Prosecutor. "The Government of the Sudan has refused to allow the World Food Programme to use Hercules C-130 aircraft to make urgently-needed airdrops of food in the south of the country", Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) said today. The restriction, which began September 1995, affected the food needs of more than 700,000 people, she added. Growing malnutrition and disease is the result, Ms. Bertini noted. "There is a very real danger of gradual and widespread starvation". Meanwhile, "WFP warehouses in neighbouring Kenya are well-stocked with food", she pointed out. The WFP Executive Director said the refusal of the Government of the Sudan to allow the Agency the use of the C-130 aircrafts, for almost a year and despite negotiations, "is a clear violation of the 1989 accord" and jeopardizes "hundreds of thousands of human lives". Nepal has become the 78th Member State to pay its assessed contribution of $108,770 to the UN regular budget, UN Spokesman Sylvana Foa said today. Meanwhile, the Russia Federation has today made a payment of $77.7 million towards UN Peace-keeping operations, according to UN Spokesman Sylvana Foa. Combined with previous payments made earlier this year, including the full amount of its regular budget assessment of over $46 million, Russia's total payment in the first half of 1996 exceeded $180 million. For information purposes only - - not an official record From the United Nations home page at <http://www.un.org> - email: unnews@un.orgUnited Nations Daily Highlights Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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