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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

15 July 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970715

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by announcing that the Secretary-General had sat in on this morning's meeting of the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly on "Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory".

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

17 July 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970717 (Incorporates Briefing by UNICEF)

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that the Secretary-General had addressed the staff this morning on his reform proposals. He quoted an excerpt from that address:

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SEYCHELLES

17 July 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SEYCHELLES

19970717

The first President of Seychelles and current leader of the opposition party, Sir James R. Mancham, said this afternoon that a forum for national reconciliation within nations should be established to address internal differences that caused a majority of the world's conflicts. He was speaking at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters.

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHIEF PROSECUTOR, YUGOSLAVIA/RWANDA TRIBUNALS

21 July 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHIEF PROSECUTOR, YUGOSLAVIA/RWANDA TRIBUNALS

19970721

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Judge Louise Arbour, this afternoon described as extremely important the arrest on Friday, 18 July, in Kenya of seven people -- virtually all of them key figures in the national leadership of the 1996 interim Government in Rwanda.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

24 July 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970724

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by welcoming Anthony Hewett, the representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) based in Bangkok, who would brief correspondents on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. (Mr. Hewett's briefing is being issued separately.)