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United Nations Daily Highlights 96-05-21United Nations Daily Highlights Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The United Nations Home Page at <http://www.un.org> - email: unnews@un.orgDAILY HIGHLIGHTSTuesday, May 21, 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 strongly deplored the recent acts of violence and condemned the recent violation of the ceasefire in Tajikistan, in particular the planned and organized offensive by the armed Tajik opposition in the Tavildara region. In a presidential statement today, members of the Council reaffirmed their commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Tajikistan. The Council emphasized its support for the extension of the cease- fire agreement for the whole duration of the inter-Tajik talks and called upon the parties to demonstrate their commitment to peace by strict compliance with the Tehran cease-fire agreement of 17 September 1994. President of the Council for May Ambassador Qin Huasun of China, reading the statement on behalf of the members of the Council reminded the parties that the mandate of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT) was subject to the proviso that the cease-fire agreement remained in force and that the parties continued to be committed to an effective ceasefire, to national reconciliation and to the promotion of democracy. The UN Transitional Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) Jacques Klein has announced that the demilitarization process in the UNTAES area of responsibility commenced at noon today, UN Spokesman Sylvanna Foa said. The process is to last for 30 days during which all military equipment and facilities are to be either moved from the area or placed under control of the UNTAES military component. Although there has been no heavy fighting in Mogadishu since the 7th of May, Mogadishu Airport and the seaport were still closed, UN Spokesman Sylvanna Foa said today. The recent fighting had caused a new wave of refugees. Over the last three months, an average of 1,800 Somalis per month have been arriving off the coast of Yemen. "And we have reason to believe that there has been considerable loss of life", she said. The fleeing people fell victim to rough seas and unscrupulous transport managers. Criminal organizations operate in a "borderless world" while law enforcement is constrained by having to function in a bordered world, according to a newly released United Nations report. The report notes that organized crime poses a "qualitatively different" threat today from that posed in the past. The report states that in the past few years, organized transnational crime has developed into a "new form of geopolitics". Today's criminal organizations thrive on the political weaknesses and breakdown of authority prevalent since the 1980s; the vast increase in global trade and the emergence of "global cities". The report also points out linkages between organized crime and licit institutions. The new document was prepared for consideration by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which begins a two-week session, covering a wide range of crime control issues, in Vienna, Austria, today. Some 1,200 delegates, including ministers of health representing the 190 members states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have gathered in Geneva for the Organization's 49th Assembly. Among their main tasks, the delegates will review Organizational reforms and response to global change, and renewal of the Health-for-All strategy. The delegates will also focus on the growing worldwide threat posed by infectious disease. Destruction of variola virus stocks; new, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; strengthening nursing and midwifery and revised drug strategy are among the issues to be discussed during the session, which began yesterday and will go on till 25 May. The World Health Assembly is the supreme governing body of the WHO. 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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