Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, told correspondents at today's noon briefing that the Secretary-General's investigative team for the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrived Sunday morning, local time, in Kinshasha and started work immediately.
At the start of today's noon briefing, Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, welcomed the Director of the Centre for Disarmament Affairs, Prvoslav Davinic, who had come to the briefing to talk about the issue of land-mines.
Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by reading the following statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General (also issued as Press Release SG/SM/6302):
Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that the Security Council was now meeting formally on the situation in Albania. A draft presidential statement that might be adopted at the meeting and the list of speakers were available in his office.
