The Trade and Development Report 1998 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), being released officially on Wednesday, 16 September, was introduced to correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.
Despite a multi-ethnic administration, judiciary and police, and the reconstruction of infrastructure, the international community's contributions were still needed in Brcko, correspondents were told this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference by that city's Mayor, Borko Reljic, and two Deputy Mayors, Ivan Krandelj and Mirsad Islamovic.
Hans Corell, the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel, said the decision handed down yesterday by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in the case involving a former mayor, was a decisive step in the creation of an international justice system.
The global population of nearly 6 billion people was made up of record numbers of young and older persons, correspondents were told this morning at a Headquarters press briefing to launch the new report: The State of the World Population 1998.
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on the disarmament of Iraq (UNSCOM), Richard Butler, said that yesterday UNSCOM Inspector William S. Ritter had handed in his letter of resignation.
At a Headquarters press conference yesterday, the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations, Muhamed Sacirbey, announced the convening of an international conference in Sarajevo on 27 August aimed at exploring ways of preventing the recurrence of deadly conflict in war-torn societies.
The United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) should seek an immediate withdrawal of both Rwandan and Ugandan troops from the Congolese territory, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations, Andre M. Kapanga, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Judge Laity Kama, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the Tribunal would, in the very near future, hand down its first decision since its inception in 1994.
