In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


1 October 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE CONVENTION

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The Ottawa Treaty to ban landmines was a "convention of conscience" that had acquired the force of binding international law with historic speed, although only the first battle in a long struggle had been won, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today at a Headquarters press conference.

30 September 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT OF UNION OF BURMA

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"If a disastrous confrontation is to be averted in Burma, the United Nations must support the efforts of the democratic forces in Burma to seek a non-violent negotiated solution", Dr. Sein Win, prime minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, said at a Headquarters press briefing sponsored by the Mission of Denmark this afternoon.

28 September 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

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The Asian financial crisis and its global reverberations had dominated the work of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the last year and led to record lending, David Cheney, Chief of the Fund's Editorial Division, this morning told a Headquarters press briefing, as he introduced the IMF's Annual Report 1998.

25 September 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HEAD OF STATE OF NIGERIA

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The most important of Nigeria's objectives was the design and implementation of a transparent and all-inclusive return to civil rule, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Head of State of Nigeria, said at a Headquarters press conference today.