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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

3 September 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970903

Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by responding to a question from yesterday's concerning the mission of Thomas Hammarberg, the Secretary-General's Special Representative on human rights in Cambodia.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON APPEAL FOR LAUNCHING DECADE FOR CULTURE OF NON-VIOLENCE

4 September 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON APPEAL FOR LAUNCHING DECADE FOR CULTURE OF NON-VIOLENCE

19970904

At a Headquarters press conference this morning, two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize announced that the United Nations had been called upon to declare the years 2000-2010 the decade for the culture of non-violence. The appeal, contained in a letter sent to all Member States, also requested that the year 2000 be declared a year for education in peace and non-violence.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

10 September 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970910

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by welcoming William Lee, Chief of the New York Liaison Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), who would address correspondents following the briefing.