Headquarters and host country


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28/10/2005
General AssemblyHQ/646
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE ADOPTS ANNUAL REPORT


The Committee on Relations with the Host Country this afternoon adopted its annual report, reaffirming the Headquarters Agreement and the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.

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6/7/2005
Press Release
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Committee on Relations

 with Host Country

224th Meeting (AM)


PARKING, TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, VISA PROCESSING DELAYS


FOCUS OF DISCUSSION IN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE


New York City’s perennial parking problems, United States restrictions on diplomats’ local travel and delays in visa processing were, once again, the focus of discussion at today’s meeting of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.

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27/06/2005
Press Release
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NEVER IN UN HISTORY HAVE BOLD DECISIONS BEEN MORE NEEDED –- AND POSSIBLE,


SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS UN COMMEMORATES CHARTER SIGNING ANNIVERSARY


“Never in the history of the United Nations have bold decisions been more necessary, and never have they been more possible”, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the United Nations Member States at Headquarters this morning, as they gathered to commemorate the signing 60 years ago of the United Nations Charter.