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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES SENIOR OFFICIALS ON WORLD DRUG PROBLEM

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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

[Incorporates briefing by spokesman for General Assembly President.]

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that the Secretary-General had bilateral meetings with various heads of delegations attending the special session of the General Assembly on drugs. Those meetings were taking place throughout today.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UN OFFICE FOR DRUG CONTROL AND CRIME PREVENTION

Participation at the twentieth special session of the General Assembly devoted to countering the world drug problem together, was beyond expectations, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Pino Arlacchi, said at a Headquarters press briefing yesterday afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF INDIA'S PLANNING COMMISSION

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA

Last year, Costa Rican police seized eight tons of cocaine that was in transit through the country, President Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PARAGUAY

Just as the Marshall Plan was put in place for recovery after a world war, a similar plan should be put in place to aid recovery in certain countries in the wake of the drug scourge which was also international, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, President of Paraguay, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT RABBANI OF AFGHANISTAN

Since the Taliban came into Afghanistan, there had been an increase in the cultivation and traffic of narcotics, an attack on women's civil rights, and the whole system of education had been abandoned, said Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan, at a press conference this afternoon at Headquarters.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY 0F ANTI-DRUG HEADQUARTERS OF IRAN