At the start of today's noon briefing, Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, welcomed the Director of the Centre for Disarmament Affairs, Prvoslav Davinic, who had come to the briefing to talk about the issue of land-mines.
Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by reading the following statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General (also issued as Press Release SG/SM/6302):
Juan Carlos Brandt, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that the Security Council was now meeting formally on the situation in Albania. A draft presidential statement that might be adopted at the meeting and the list of speakers were available in his office.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by informing correspondents that he would provide them with notes from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the question of the killings in Rwanda. They contained answers by UNHCR's spokeswoman, Pam O'Toole, to questions on Amnesty International's claim that the international community was ignoring those killings.
CORRECTION
Owing to a technical error, a word was omitted from the noon briefing notes for 7 August. The first two sentences of the second paragraph -- which concerns the crash of a helicopter of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) near the village of At Tiri in south Lebanon -- should read as follows:
