In progress at UNHQ

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

27 January 1999



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19990127

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by reminding correspondents that the beginning of the year brought to Headquarters various executive boards of funds and programmes that were based in New York. The Spokesman's Office had been asking if there was anyone in town attending those meetings who might be of interest to correspondents.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GEORGIA

29 January 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GEORGIA

19990129

Negotiations to resolve the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, were deadlocked and a more radical solution was needed, correspondents were told this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by Georgia's Mission.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIERRA LEONE

29 January 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIERRA LEONE

19990129

The conflict in Sierra Leone was not internal, but a regional one, and the Security Council should be more even-handed in its approach to the crisis, the country's Finance Minister, James Jonah, told a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHIEF OF OCHA EMERGENCY LIAISON BRANCH

1 February 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHIEF OF OCHA EMERGENCY LIAISON BRANCH

19990201

The humanitarian situation in Sierra Leone could be described as very serious with the likely possibility of further deterioration if the current political and military situation continued, Kevin Kennedy, Chief of the Emergency Liaison Branch of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing.