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PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF IRAQ PROGRAMME

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PRESS BRIEFING OF UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR LEGAL AFFAIRS

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.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SENIOR RESEARCHER OF UNFPA

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.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNSCOM EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

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.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF RWANDA TRIBUNAL

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.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON CAMPAIGN TO ELIMINATE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN AFRICA

While equal rights for women and men was one of the pillars on which the United Nations was founded, those rights were far from being universally observed, Angela King, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY HIGH REPRESENTATIVE ON BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was improving, but the "litmus test" of reconciliation would be the return of refugees, the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Carlos Westendorp, said today.