WOM/BEI/11

         4 September 1995









 SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REMARKS AT CEREMONY MARKING ISSUANCE



 OF POSTAGE STAMPS COMMEMORATING WOMEN'S CONFERENCE





 Following is the text of remarks by United Nations Secretary-General 

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, read by Under-Secretary-General Ismat Kittani, at a 

ceremony marking the issuance today by the Government of China and the 

United Nations of postage stamps commemorating the Fourth World Conference 

on Women:





 Today is the formal opening of the Fourth World Conference on Women. 

 This is celebrated by commemorative stamps issued by both the Government 

of China and the United Nations.



 The significance of these stamps is even greater.  Not only where the 

United Nations stamps designed by a Chinese artist, the very talented Mr. 

Ting Shao Kuang, but they were printed here in China by the Beijing Stamp 

Printing House of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.  This is the 

first time that the Ministry has printed stamps for any postal 

administration outside of China.  Considering the superb reproduction of 

Mr. Ting's artwork and the very high quality of the stamps, I have do doubt 

that the United nations Postal Administration is only the first of the many 

to have their stamps printed in China.



 Stamps are art.  They are history.  They carry news and knowledge to 

every part of the world.  They have captured the imagination of collectors 

everywhere.  China's progress in the philatelic world is an impressive 

symbol of China's new world role in every dimension of human concern.







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