Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Press Conference

PRESS BRIEFING BY IRAQ SANCTIONS COMMITTEE

18 March 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY IRAQ SANCTIONS COMMITTEE

19970318 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

At a press briefing yesterday afternoon, correspondents were told that the Security Council Committee established under resolution 661 (1990) to monitor the sanctions against Iraq had approved 34 out of 56 applications that had been submitted to it by the Secretariat, which had received a total of 324 applications.

PRESS BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR GREAT LAKES REGION

6 March 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR GREAT LAKES REGION

19970306 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region, Martin Griffiths, briefed correspondents yesterday afternoon, 5 March, on the situation in the region in view of what he called "rapidly changing events". He said he had recently returned from the region and would be going back there later in the week.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ANGOLA

3 March 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ANGOLA

19970303 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The virtual end of the war in Angola in the past two years was the most remarkable step forward there, Alioune Blondin Beye, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Angola, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing Friday afternoon, 28 February.

PRESS CONFERENCE, SPONSORED BY SPAIN, ON 'FOOD FOR ALL' COMPETITION

27 February 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE, SPONSORED BY SPAIN, ON 'FOOD FOR ALL' COMPETITION

19970227 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

A global competition for children, the young and teachers on envisioning a world with food for all was launched this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Spanish Mission.