The first-ever United Nations novel, Marie -- In the Shadow of the Lion, a humanitarian children's book by Jerry Piasecki, was launched at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The human and financial resources of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) were no longer sufficient for the proper carrying out of its tasks, the President of the ICJ told correspondents this afternoon in a Headquarters press conference.
The "unsung success story" in Bosnia and Herzegovina, five years after the Dayton peace accords, was the reconstruction of the infrastructure of the warn- torn country, Wolfgang Petritsch, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
At a Headquarters press briefing today, sponsored by the Department for Disarmament Affairs, a group of interested parties discussed issues currently before the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security).
It was time the human rights movement in the United States joined more fully with the United Nations in providing the leadership that would make for a constructive World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Mary Robinson, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
Entries from 208 countries had been received for the 2000 United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA)/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award, Mr. Lurie told correspondents during an UNCA press briefing this morning at Headquarters.
Justice Richard Goldstone (South Africa), Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, told correspondents at a United Nations briefing this afternoon that the Commission had been established because the Prime Minister of Sweden, Goran Persson, had become concerned at the absence of independent analysis of the conflict in Kosovo.
