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PRESS BRIEFING ON ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATION IN BALKANS

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PRESS BRIEFING ON PLANS TO LIMIT ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS

The proposed United Nations conference on illicit arms trade should focus mainly on small arms and light weapons manufactured to military specifications, according to a panel of experts in a report released at United Nations Headquarters today and presented at a press briefing.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON WORK OF TOKYO DISARMAMENT FORUM

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ON CIS COUNTRIES REPORT

There was enormous strain on the societies of the former Soviet Union whose situation resembled a ticking time-bomb, Anton Kruiderink, Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), said at a Headquarters press briefing today.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY FORMER ACTING SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR KOSOVO

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PRESS BRIEFING ON UN OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

The biggest lesson of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be applied in Kosovo was the recognition that there should be one international leadership giving more responsibility to local political leaders in solving problems, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elizabeth Rehn, said this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON KOSOVO

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PRESS BRIEFING ON SITUATION IN GEORGIA

The security situation in the Georgia conflict zone had been improving since the beginning of the year and there had been no major violations of the 1994 ceasefire and separation of forces agreement, Liviu Bota, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Georgia, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON DECISION BY ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL IN COMMERCIAL DISPUTE BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS AND SKYLINK AVIATION

An arbitral tribunal today issued its decision in favour of the United Nations in a commercial dispute between the Organization and the Canadian company, SkyLink Aviation, Inc., Bruce Rashkow, Director, General Legal Division, Office of Legal Affairs, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY WORLD GOLD COUNCIL

A proposal for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to sell some of its gold holdings to finance debt relief of poor countries was flawed and should be abandoned, George Milling-Stanley of the World Gold Council, said this morning at a Headquarters press conference that was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations.