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PRESS CONFERENCE ON FUNDING TO ADDRESS EFFECTS OF CHERNOBYL DISASTER

1 May 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON FUNDING TO ADDRESS EFFECTS OF CHERNOBYL DISASTER

19980501

The urgent need for funds to help alleviate the continuing effects of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl power plant was stressed this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference by the Permanent Representatives of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Also participating was Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

6 May 1998



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19980506

Juan Carlos Brandt, Senior Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that there would be no Security Council consultations today. The Council would meet tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. to receive a briefing from the Secretariat on the situation in Sierra Leone.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF NAMIBIA

6 May 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF NAMIBIA

19980506

"We always boast in Namibia that the relationship between the United Nations and Namibia will never be broken", Hage G. Geingob, Prime Minister of Namibia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning, in which he reviewed his country's progress since its independence in 1990.