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SG/A/886-BIO/3592-PI/1605

VOLKER PETZOLDT APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF UN INFORMATION CENTRE IN MEXICO CITY

17/08/2004
Press Release
SG/A/886
BIO/3592
PI/1605

Biographical Note


VOLKER PETZOLDT APPOINTed DIRECTOR OF UN INFORMATION CENTRE IN MEXICO CITY


Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Volker Petzoldt as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Mexico City.  Mr. Petzoldt, who will assume his duties on 23 August 2004, succeeds Angel Escudero, who has retired from the service of the Organization.

SG/A/885-BIO/3591-PI/1603

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS SUNIL NARULA DIRECTOR OF UN INFORMATION CENTRE IN TEHRAN

16/08/2004
Press Release
SG/A/885
BIO/3591
PI/1603

Biographical Note


SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS SUNIL NARULA DIRECTOR


OF UN INFORMATION CENTRE IN TEHRAN


Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Sunil Narula Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Tehran, Iran.  He took up his duties on 8 August 2004.

SC/8168

IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS MASSACRE IN BURUNDI OF REFUGEES FROM DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

15/08/2004
Press Release
SC/8168


IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT, SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS MASSACRE IN BURUNDI


OF REFUGEES FROM DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO


The Security Council this evening condemned with “the utmost firmness” the massacre of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which occurred in Gatumba, Burundi on 13 August.  [In that attack, more than 160 people were killed, and 101 others were wounded.]

SOC/NAR/914

UN STUDY ON AFGHANISTAN’S ‘OPIUM ECONOMY’ WINS AWARD

13/08/2004
Press Release
SOC/NAR/914


UN STUDYONAFGHANISTAN’S ‘OPIUM ECONOMY’ WINS AWARD


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 13 August (UN Information Service) -- “The Opium Economy in Afghanistan:  An International Problem”, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) publication, has won the “Notable Government Documents 2003” award, presented by the Library Journal, a publication of the American Library Association.