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PANEL DISCUSSES GLOBAL COMPACT AT HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE

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PRESS BRIEFING ON CAPITAL MASTER PLAN BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL CONNOR

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNCTAD SECRETARY-GENERAL ON PREPARATIONS FOR 2001 UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), briefed correspondents today at Headquarters on the preparations under way for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which is scheduled to be held in Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

Grave crimes against children should not be part of amnesty provisions when peace agreements were being negotiated, according to one of the key recommendations of the Secretary-General's latest report on children and armed conflict, Olara Otunnu, his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA

The resolution passed by the World Diamond Congress in Antwerp two days ago was remarkable, Robert Fowler, Canada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR GEORGIA

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PRESS BRIEFING ON LAUNCH OF 'HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY'

The launch of the report "Humanitarian Action in the 21st Century" today demonstrated the international humanitarian community's shared commitment and enthusiasm for improving the way it responded to emergencies, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, a.i., Carolyn McAskie told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON 'THE GLOBAL COMPACT' BY ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL AND SPECIAL ADVISER TO SECRETARY-GENERAL

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HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY SAVE THE CHILDREN (UNITED KINGDOM)

Raising public awareness of the plight of the world's 20 million displaced children was the goal of the Save the Children's Portrait Pledge, Mike Aaronson, Director-General of Save the Children-United Kingdom told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

If negotiations with the Taliban to permit women to continue to work in Afghanistan were unsuccessful, then delivering assistance to victims of the drought currently being experienced by that country would become extremely difficult, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.