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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

Summing up the financial picture of the United Nations, the Under- Secretary-General for Management, Joseph Connor, told correspondents at a press briefing this afternoon that the Organization's cash position was weak, and getting weaker. Its unpaid assessments were slowly decreasing, and its ability to "cross-borrow" was drying up, he added.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF IRAQ SANCTIONS COMMITTEE

At a Headquarters press briefing this evening, Antonio Monteiro (Portugal), Chairman of the Security Council Committee established by resolution 661 (1990) to monitor the sanctions regime against Iraq, reviewed the subjects taken up by the Committee's 167th meeting, held earlier in the day.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR IRAQ

The newly appointed Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Prakash Shah, said at a Headquarters press briefing today that the Secretary- General had indicated in a letter dated 5 March to the Security Council what was expected of him. Mr. Shah said he planned to leave New York on Wednesday or Thursday and set up his office in Baghdad before the end of March.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON ROLE OF INDUSTRY IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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PRESS BRIEFING BY FEDERATION OF AFRICAN WOMEN'S PEACE NETWORK, SPONSORED BY UNIFEM

Four members of the Federation of African Women's Peace Network (FERFAP) discussed the role women played in peace and armed conflict, at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNEP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Topfer, outlined UNEP's priorities and the global environmental agenda at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Violence against women was a universal problem that was often overlooked, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Radhika Coomaraswamy, told correspondents at a press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR AND NEWLY APPOINTED GOODWILL AMBASSADOR

It was possible to put mass poverty into the dustbin of history within the lifetimes of today's children, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Gustave Speth, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning upon the appointment of actor Danny Glover as UNDP Goodwill Ambassador.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON ANGOLA

Njuguna M. Mahugu (Kenya), Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 864 (1993) concerning the situation in Angola, this afternoon informed correspondence of the just-concluded meeting of that sanctions monitoring body, at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN OF NATION OF ISLAM

The Secretary-General was successful in his efforts to avert a catastrophe that could have affected the whole world because he spoke on behalf of the Security Council and also because he listened to the "pain and the hurt" of the Iraqi people, Minister Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Islam, said today at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by Libya.