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PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR THE BALKANS

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORK OF WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE DURING TWENTY-FIRST SESSION

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UN VOLUNTEERS ON EAST TIMOR

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF WORKING GROUP ON INFORMATICS ON GLOBAL MEETING OF Y2K COORDINATORS

So much emphasis had been placed on the Y2K threat to the financial sector in the past six months and the previous year that adequate attention had not been paid so far to shipping, health and other high-risk sectors, Ahmad Kamal, Chairman of the United Nations Working Group on Informatics, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO UN ACTIONS IN RWANDA

The independent inquiry into United Nations actions before and during the 1994 Rwanda genocide hoped to draw conclusions about why the event had occurred, who was responsible, and how lessons learned from it could prevent it from happening again, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON DESERTIFICATION

Lena Poulsen, Technical Adviser in the Office to Combat Desertification and Drought of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) briefed correspondents at Headquarters today in preparation for the World Day to Combat Desertification, to be observed on 17 June.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON CHILD SAFETY ON INTERNET

The use of the Internet for sexual abuse of children and paedophilia was a problem of international proportions touching every social class in all regions of the world, Homayra Sellier, president of Innocence in Danger, said this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

The Government of Colombia and the main guerilla movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), have agreed to place children's issues on the peace agenda, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Children and Armed Children, Olara Otunnu, said at a Headquarters press briefing today.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF CARE AUSTRALIA

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PRESS BRIEFING ON WORK OF PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION ON 1995 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT OUTCOME

There would be no re-negotiation of the Copenhagen Agreement, John Langmore, Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.