PRESS BRIEFING BY UN/OAU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GREAT LAKES REGION
29 January 1997
Rioters who protested the collapse of pyramid investment schemes had caused an estimated $50 million in damage and losses to the fragile Albanian economy, Pellumb Kulla, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania told a Headquarters press briefing this morning.
At a headquarters press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of France this morning, Fabrice Hatem, Head of the Study Centre on International Investment, stated that a recent survey of managers of transnational corporations had revealed that foreign direct investment was expected to continue its expansion over the next five years.