Everyone was talking about the use of flexible economic instruments in environmental policy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer said today at a Headquarters press briefing.
The Third United Nations Global Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) will be held in Vienna from 19 to 30 July 1999, the Director of the Office of Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations Office at Vienna, Nandasiri Jasentuliyana Duliyana, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Karl Paschke told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the general message of his report was that the functioning of internal oversight was proof of a better, healthier United Nations.
The Director of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Joseph Chamie, told a Headquarters press briefing this morning that the decrease in mortality was probably humanity's greatest achievement.
A petition of more than 13 million signatures in support of a campaign calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons was initiated in Japan by a second-generation Hiroshima survivor, a representative of Soka Gakkai International, Andrew Gebert, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
In a world where knowledge was a very important commercial asset, intellectual property was an inexhaustible resource, the Director of Global Communications and Public Policy for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geoffrey Yu, said today at a Headquarters press conference.
If every American citizen would pay just $7, an amount less than the cost of attending a movie, the United States would be able to pay its arrears to the United Nations, James Paul, Executive Director of the Global Policy Forum, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
