(Incorporates briefing by spokesman for General Assembly President)
At a Headquarters press briefing this morning, a team of United Nations economists introduced a note of the Secretary-General on The World Economy at the Beginning of 1998 forecasting a picture of global economic growth despite the current financial crisis in South-East Asia. The note will be submitted to the 1998 organizational session of the Economic and Social Council.
(Incorporates briefing by spokesman for General Assembly President.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina contained approximately 3 million landmines, or an estimated 152 mines per square mile, making it "the most infested" country in the world, that country's Permanent Representative, Muhamed Sacirbey, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
(Incorporates briefing by spokesman for General Assembly President)
(Incorporates briefing by spokesman for General Assembly President.)
Hiro Ueki, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by responding to queries received over the weekend on the "oil- for-food" programme, under which Iraqi oil can be sold to purchase humanitarian goods.
Hiro Ueki, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's briefing by announcing that the Secretary-General had transmitted to the Security Council the report by the two legal experts he had sent to examine the Scottish legal system in connection with the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
