Iraqi officials had again blocked the Baghdad Monitoring and Verification Centre's attempt to conduct inspections in the Baghdad area, the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on the Disarmament of Iraq, Richard Butler, said this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
The dispute over the Lockerbie air atrocity was a very important case in the constitutional history of the United Nations, Judge Stephen Schwebel, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) had become an effective and meaningful component of the United Nations system, Karl Paschke, Under- Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) had a major opportunity to prevent children in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from falling victim to a disastrous famine, Omawale Omawale, the Fund's Special Representative in Pyongyang told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
At a Headquarter press briefing this afternoon, Richard Butler, Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission, set up under Security Council resolution 687 (1991) to monitor the disarmament of Iraq, announced that all the Commission's operations in Iraq would be temporarily suspended.
At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, Sir John Weston, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, told correspondents his Government had invited international observers to examine the Scottish judicial system and to discuss the arrangements for a trial of the two Lockerbie suspects in Scotland.
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Pino Arlacchi, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), announced that the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan had banned the cultivation, use and trade in opium.
