The President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alirza Ogly Aliyev, at a press conference at Headquarters yesterday afternoon, said his country was involved in the process of building a democratic society, furthering its relations with the United States and developing its economy on market principles.
Anthony Hewett, representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Bangkok, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing this afternoon that UNICEF had increased its appeal for the malnourished children in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from $4.7 million to $14.3 million.
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Judge Louise Arbour, this afternoon described as extremely important the arrest on Friday, 18 July, in Kenya of seven people -- virtually all of them key figures in the national leadership of the 1996 interim Government in Rwanda.
The first President of Seychelles and current leader of the opposition party, Sir James R. Mancham, said this afternoon that a forum for national reconciliation within nations should be established to address internal differences that caused a majority of the world's conflicts. He was speaking at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters.
The President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia), Chairman of the Assembly's open-ended high-level working group on the strengthening of the United Nations system, and its two Vice-Chairmen, Prakash Shah (India) and Hans Jacob Bjorn Lian (Norway), held a press conference at Headquarters this morning to introduce the group's report (document A/51/24).
At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative/United Nations Special Coordinator in Angola, Bernard Ntegeye, briefed correspondents on the efforts of the United Nations in that country to consolidate peace.
