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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

2 November 1999



Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

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The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.

Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General

Good afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN

3 November 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN

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"We could have a serious humanitarian disaster on our hands come December, unless we gain access to the large number of displaced persons within the country", Eric de Mul, Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA, EXCLUDING KOSOVO

4 November 1999



Press Briefing


BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA, EXCLUDING KOSOVO

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Steven Allen, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (excluding Kosovo), told correspondents at a press briefing this afternoon that poverty in that country was on the increase.

BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN KINSHASA

4 November 1999



Press Briefing


BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN KINSHASA

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Decades of misrule followed by successive waves of fighting had resulted in an acute humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, correspondents were told this afternoon by the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Kinshasa, at a press briefing at Headquarters.