DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL
3 March 1997
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.
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.