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Noon Briefings


22 September 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970922

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by noting that there was no Security Council meeting today. All the action was in the General Assembly, he said, and Alex Taukatch, spokesman for the President of the General Assembly, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine), would provide a report on that.

18 September 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970918

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's briefing by welcoming Henryk Sokalski (Poland), Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Chief of Mission for the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP), who was present to talk to correspondents about that mission. [Mr. Sokalski's briefing is being issued separately.]

10 September 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970910

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by welcoming William Lee, Chief of the New York Liaison Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), who would address correspondents following the briefing.

8 September 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970908

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, told correspondent's at today's press briefing that Under-Secretary-General Iqbal Riza had briefed the Security Council this morning on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.