Fiftieth anniversary of UN

Title

Fiftieth anniversary of UN

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

22 Oct 1995

Year of production

1995

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:09:35

Description

North American correspondent Simon Marks reports from UN headquarters in New York where 180 world leaders are celebrating the UN’s fiftieth anniversary. On the ambivalence over the UN’s future, its current cash crisis and calls for its bureaucratic reform, and on speeches by US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Cuban President Fidel Castro. Also on security arrangements, forthcoming summit on Bosnia between Yeltsin and Clinton, unwelcome presence of Castro, and UK Prime Minister John Major’s delayed arrival and meeting with Argentine President Carlos Mendes. Includes Clinton on the UN’s successes and failures, and Castro calling for relaxation of the US embargo against Cuba. On London News 97.3FM.

Contributors

Bill Clinton; Simon Marks; London News 97.3; Fidel Castro

Keywords

USA; Anniversary celebrations; Ethnic conflicts; Cuba; UN; Economic sanctions; Finance; Fidel Castro; Security; Summits (meetings); Wars (events); John Major; Meetings; Bill Clinton; Boris Yeltsin; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Institutional anniversaries; Yugoslav War (1991-1995); Carlos Mendes; Interantional relations

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.