Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

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Press Conference

PRESS BRIEFING ON TORTURE VICTIMS AND CONVENTION

25 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON TORTURE VICTIMS AND CONVENTION

19980625

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.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER FOR UN SPECIAL INITIATIVE ON AFRICA

19 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER FOR UN SPECIAL INITIATIVE ON AFRICA

19980619

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.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON

19 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON

19980619

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.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT RABBANI OF AFGHANISTAN

9 June 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT RABBANI OF AFGHANISTAN

19980609

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.