In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


2 July 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

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At a Headquarters press briefing yesterday afternoon, Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Chair of the United Nations Task Force on Environment and Human Settlements, presented to correspondents the report of the Task Force to the Secretary- General.

1 July 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo rejected any allegation that the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of the Congo (ADFL) had pursued an official policy of genocide against the Rwandan Hutus, the permanent representative of that country said this afternoon at a Headquarters press confernce.

30 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS INSPECTOR-GENERAL KARL PASCHKE

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At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Karl Paschke, Inspector-General of the United Nations, presented to correspondents the report of the Secretary-General on the programme performance of the United Nations biennium 1996-1997.

25 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON TORTURE VICTIMS AND CONVENTION

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United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is to be commemorated for the first time tomorrow, Friday 26 June, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, the new Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced at a Headquarters press briefing this morning. An exhibition on torture would be opened at Headquarters.