In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


30 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPUTY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

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Faced with a drought equivalent to the one that ravaged the Horn of Africa 15 years ago, the Secretary-General had appointed Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as his Special Envoy on the drought in the region, Carolyn McAskie, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

30 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR A.I.

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Faced with a drought equivalent to the one that ravaged the Horn of Africa 15 years ago, the Secretary-General had appointed Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as his Special Envoy on the drought in the region, Carolyn McAskie, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator a.i., said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

27 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

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The United Nations had taken a step back from the financial brink in 1999, the Under-Secretary-General for Management, Joseph E. Connor, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

24 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

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The United Nations should establish a tribunal to investigate "massacres" committed by United States troops during the Korean War, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Li Hyong Chol, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

21 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION

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Launching the report, “Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?”, Joseph Chamie, Director of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, discussed the viability of international migration as a solution to population decline and population ageing in developed countries, at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

17 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY MISSION OF RWANDA

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Allegations of Rwandan collaboration with the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) were merely hearsay generated by those interested in distorting the facts for their own reasons, Rwanda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

17 March 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE ON PARTICIPATION IN BEIJING REVIEW

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At a Headquarters press conference Wednesday, several organizations provided correspondents with details on the plans to welcome and accommodate the thousands of citizens groups from around the world who would be attending the five-year review of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995), which will take place at Headquarters in June.