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Press Conference

PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY CANADA ON LAND-MINE BAN

13 May 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY CANADA ON LAND-MINE BAN

19970513 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

United States President William Clinton "speaks very poetically in support of a ban on land-mines and we would beg him to put a signature to his words", Tun Channareth, a double-amputee land-mine victim told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ SPECIAL COMMISSION

1 May 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ SPECIAL COMMISSION

19970501 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The outgoing Executive Chairman of the United Nation Special Commission charged with the destruction of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Rolf Ekeus, said at today's noon briefing that he was delighted with the Secretary- General's selection of Australia's Permanent Representative, Richard Butler, as the Special Commission's new Executive Chairman.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ALBANIA

30 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ALBANIA

19970430 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNHCR

28 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNHCR

19970428 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadako Ogata, this afternoon said that the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire had given UNHCR 60 days in which to repatriate the estimated 80,000 Rwandan refugees that recently disappeared from encampments south of Kisangani, Zaire.