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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

13 May 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970513 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon press briefing by reading out a press release from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Geneva, concerning an incident which took place in Goma, in eastern Zaire, yesterday.

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.