At a Headquarters press conference this morning, the Foreign Minister of Italy, Lamberto Dini, called for a fundamental review of financial institutions and the international financial architecture that governed the development of the global market.
More "political horsepower" was needed behind negotiations to strengthen and enhance the biological weapons Convention, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand, Donald McKinnon, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.
For the first time, guerilla leaders in Colombia had made a commitment to eradicate illicit drug crops, the country's President, Andrés Pastrana Arango, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by saying that the ministerial Security Council meeting on Africa had started at roughly 10:30 a.m. and would finish at about 1:15 p.m. The Council was expected to adopt a presidential statement, a draft of which had been made available this morning in the Spokesman's Office.
The Foreign Minister of Austria, Wolfgang Schussel, speaking in his capacity as President of the European Union (EU), said at a Headquarters press conference today that a unified diplomatic effort between the EU, the United States and Russia led to the adoption of yesterday's Security Council resolution (S/1998/1199) on bringing stability to Kosovo.
Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's focus on peace development during his address to the General Assembly on Monday was prompted by an emerging "twin" threat to world security, Mikie Kiyoi, spokeswoman for Japan's Foreign Ministry, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
Albania supported separatism and terrorism by aiding ethnic Albanians fighting in Kosovo, said Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, Chargé d'affaires of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, at a press conference held today at Headquarters.
The most important of Nigeria's objectives was the design and implementation of a transparent and all-inclusive return to civil rule, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Head of State of Nigeria, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
