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Press Conference


19 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER FOR UN SPECIAL INITIATIVE ON AFRICA

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Accountability, transparency and measures against corruption were the focus of the Second Africa Governance Forum, the Special Adviser for the United Nations Special Initiative on Africa, Trevor Gordon-Sommers, said this afternoon at a briefing to announce the holding of the Forum next week on 25 and 26 June in Accra, Ghana.

19 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON

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Lebanon and Syria were ready to sign a peace agreement in three months if Israel decided to go ahead with peace negotiations, Prime Minister Rafic Hariri of Lebanon said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. That position was very clear and highly appreciated by the United States Government, he added.

9 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PARAGUAY

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Just as the Marshall Plan was put in place for recovery after a world war, a similar plan should be put in place to aid recovery in certain countries in the wake of the drug scourge which was also international, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, President of Paraguay, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

9 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT RABBANI OF AFGHANISTAN

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Since the Taliban came into Afghanistan, there had been an increase in the cultivation and traffic of narcotics, an attack on women's civil rights, and the whole system of education had been abandoned, said Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan, at a press conference this afternoon at Headquarters.