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PRESS CONFERENCE BY NORWAY ON AFGHANISTAN

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NORWAY ON AFGHANISTAN

4 December 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NORWAY ON AFGHANISTAN

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At a Headquarters press conference yesterday evening, 3 December, Leiv Lunde, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, said the basic motivation for the continued presence of humanitarian groups in Afghanistan was to alleviate the sufferings of the war-weary people of that country.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

10 December 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

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At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon to mark Human Rights Day, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Gustave Speth, said a third of the people in the developing world were imprisoned by poverty. It was a prison so complete that it denied them their fundamental rights, such as the right to life, liberty and to a meaningful existence.

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