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24 September 1998

Yesterday afternoon he also issued a statement attributable to his spokesman regarding Hurricane Georges. It is available on the racks in both English and Spanish.

This morning, the President chaired the plenary meeting until noon and then proceeded to hold a series of bilateral meetings scheduled for this morning, first with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, followed by the President of El Salvador and the President of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon.

This afternoon, he will participate, in his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, in the Ministerial meeting between the European Union Troika and Mercosur, followed by meetings with the President of Honduras, and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Lichtenstein, New Zealand and finally the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand.

This morning the Assembly continued the general debate with statements by the Presidents of the Federated States of Micronesia (Jacob Nena); Honduras (Carlos Roberto Flores Facusee) and Venezuela (Rafael Caldera); Prime Ministers of Israel, India and Turkey, and Foreign Ministers of Poland and Bulgaria.

In the afternoon, the Assembly is scheduled to hear the Presidents of El Salvador (Armando Calderon Sol). Moldova (Petru Luchinschi) and the Head of States of Nigeria (Mr. Abdulsalami Abubakar), Crown Prince of Monaco, Foreign Minister of Guinea, President of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, Netherlands, Greece, Morocco and Cuba. The list of speakers in the general debate at the fifty-third session was closed last night.

On the side table are copies of the list of speakers scheduled to address the Assembly tomorrow.