Opening a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, Alex Taukatch, spokesman for the President of the General Assembly, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine) told correspondents that the effects of the Chernobyl disaster -- the worst nuclear power plant accident in history -- continued to haunt the most deeply affected countries.
The Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission set up under Security Council resolution 687 (1991) to monitor the disposal of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (UNSCOM), Richard Butler, told correspondents at today's noon briefing that he had decided to withdraw most UNSCOM personnel from Iraq and leave only a skeleton staff at its Baghdad Centre.
At press briefings at Headquarters today, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for internally displaced persons, Francis Deng, briefed correspondents on their work.
There were many new abuses of human rights in territory of the former Yugoslavia, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Rehn, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
