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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

27 June 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970627

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by introducing Senator Pino Arlacchi who the Secretary-General had named as the new Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna and the Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme. The appointment would be effective 1 September.

PRESS BRIEFING BY NEW CHIEF OF DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMME

27 June 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY NEW CHIEF OF DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMME

19970627

At a Headquarter's press conference today, Senator Pino Arlucchi of Italy, said he would take up his appointment as the new Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna and the Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme on 1 September. He hoped to better integrate the Organization's efforts to combat global crime challenge.

PRESS BRIEFING ON UNTAES

27 June 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON UNTAES

19970627

The United Nations Transitional Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, Jacques Klein, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing yesterday, 26 June, that he was in New York to brief the Security Council on developments in his area of operation, on which the Secretary-General had just issued a report (document S/1997/487).

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

30 June 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970630

Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by explaining that the start of the briefing had been delayed 15 minutes so that correspondents could watch the historic events taking place 12 hours ahead in Hong Kong.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA

3 July 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA

19970703

The joint United Nations/Organization of African Unity (OAU) Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region, Mohamed Sahnoun, this afternoon briefed correspondents on the situation in Congo-Brazzaville, following his briefing to the Security Council on the matter.