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PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQI DISARMAMENT

13 November 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQI DISARMAMENT

19971113

The Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission set up under Security Council resolution 687 (1991) to monitor the disposal of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (UNSCOM), Richard Butler, told correspondents at today's noon briefing that he had decided to withdraw most UNSCOM personnel from Iraq and leave only a skeleton staff at its Baghdad Centre.

PRESS BRIEFINGS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS

13 November 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFINGS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS

19971113

At press briefings at Headquarters today, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for internally displaced persons, Francis Deng, briefed correspondents on their work.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

13 November 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

19971113

There were many new abuses of human rights in territory of the former Yugoslavia, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Rehn, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.