23 October 1998
In progress at UNHQ
Press Conference
23 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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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.
22 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS BRIEFING BY PROSECUTOR OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND RWANDA
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22 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE ON CD-ROM LAUNCHED BY ADMINISTRATION AND COST OF ELECTIONS PROJECT
19981022
With multi-party elections taking place for the first time in 51 countries between 1988 and 1998, some people had spoken of a new age of democracy. But the real question, according to Bengt Save-Soderbergh, Secretary-General of the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, was whether this new impetus towards elections would last.
22 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS BRIEFING ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT
19981022
The continued use of children in hostilities and a growth in the numbers of children being displaced were among the greatest concerns in the arena of his work, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu, said in a Headquarters press briefing on Wednesday.
22 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE ON CD-ROM LAUNCHED BY ADMINISTRATION AND COST OF ELECTIONS PROJECT
19981022
With multi-party elections taking place for the first time in 51 countries between 1988 and 1998, some people had spoken of a new age of democracy. But the real question, according to Bengt Save-Soderbergh, Secretary-General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, was whether this new impetus towards elections would last.
22 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS BRIEFING ON CLIMATE CHANGE
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Michael Zammit-Cutajar, Executive Secretary, secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning that the Fourth Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, to be held from 2 to 13 November, would be the first in the convention process to be held in a developing country.
21 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
19981021
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was vitally interested in seeing a speedy end to the crisis in Kosovo and a lasting political settlement, the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vladislav Jovanovic, said today at a Headquarters press conference.
20 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNFPA GOODWILL AMBASSADOR, GERI HALLIWELL -- 'GINGER SPICE' OF SPICE GIRLS
19981020
Newly appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Geri Halliwell (a.k.a. "Ginger Spice" of the Spice Girls) told a United Nations press conference this morning that she had long been known as the "evangelist of women's empowerment". She had always been outspoken and had fought for the underdog, she said.
20 October 1998
Press Briefing
PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME ON RELIGION AND ECOLOGY
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The results of a three-year series of conferences, carried out by the Harvard Project on Religion and Ecology, were presented Tuesday at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).