Every day was a fight to ensure that the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords was not forgotten, said the Special Representative and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elisabeth Rehn, at a Headquarters press briefing today.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that a spokesman for the World Food Programme (WFP), Abby Spring, would give a briefing on ongoing relief efforts on wake of Hurricane Mitch. (The briefing by Ms. Spring is being issued separately.)
"Anyone on the ground will tell you this is the worst natural disaster to hit Central America in two centuries", a spokesman for the World Food Programme (WFP), Abby Spring, said during a Headquarters briefing upon her return from a week-long mission to Nicaragua in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.
Asylbek A. Aidaraliev (Kyrgyzstan) told a Headquarters press conference yesterday that promoting the sustainable development of mountains was chief among the reasons his Government had proposed the international community dedicate a year to mountains.
Even as the global environmental crisis was deepening, people were taking more notice and wanted more "hands-on" involvement, Ian Kiernan, the winner of the 1998 Sasakawa Environment Prize, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
The President of the Friends of the United Nations, Noel Brown, briefed correspondents at Headquarters Monday, to mark the International Day Of Tolerance and honour the recipients of the first Global Tolerance Award.
