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Noon Briefings


24/04/2002
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Fact-finding Mission


A short while ago in Geneva, Stephane Dujarric, who is the Spokesman traveling with Martti Ahtisaari, the head of the fact-finding mission to the Middle East, read out the following statement to the press:

19/04/2002
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Guests


We're happy to have today, and they'll be here in a few minutes, members of the panel of experts on Liberia sanctions.  I think you've all seen their report.

16/04/2002
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Middle East


We received this from Terje Roed Larsen, the Secretary-General's Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process:

12/04/2002
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


**Secretary-General on Middle East


Good afternoon, we’ll start with a statement attributable to the Spokesman in response to a suicide bombing in Jerusalem this morning:

11/04/2002
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Jan Fischer, Spokesman for the General Assembly President.


Briefing by the Secretary-General’s Spokesman, Fred Eckhard


**International Criminal Court