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PRESS BRIEFING ON WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN OF SECRETARY-GENERAL

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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN OF SECRETARY-GENERAL

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by saying the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Nitin Desai, had been invited to room S-226 to brief correspondents on the high-level meeting on globalization that would take place in the General Assembly tomorrow.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

Some 300,000 people had been displaced by the fighting in Kosovo, more than 60 per cent of whom were children, Olara Otunnu, Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, said this morning as he recommended a three-pronged approach to deal with the "unfolding tragedy".

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PRESS BRIEFING BY USG FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

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PRESS BRIEFING BY REPRESENTATIVES OF UNDP AND OECD

The international community could help developing countries save billions of dollars by ending corruption, G. Shabbir Cheema, Director of Management Development and Governance Division of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNA/USA

Americans overwhelmingly supported the United Nations and the job it was doing, John C. Whitehead, Chairman of the Board of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA/USA), told a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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PRESS CONFERENCE MARKING FORTIETH RATIFICATION OF LANDMINES CONVENTION TRIGGERING MARCH 1991 ENTRY INTO FORCE

The world had taken a major step towards becoming a safer and more humane place, the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Choi Young-Jin, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by reporting that the United Nations humanitarian needs assessment mission to Bamyan in Afghanistan, which had been announced earlier in the week, was still on hold pending clarification of security and the state of the airport in Bamyan. Alternate routes into Bamyan were being explored.