The Legal Counsel for the United Nations, Hans Corell, fielded questions from correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon on the release today of a letter from Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed to Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi.
The "massive armed attack" by the Kosovo Force (KFOR) against the Trepca mines in the northern part of Kosovo was unprecedented, the interim Chargé d'affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the United Nations told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.
There had been many positive developments in Kosovo, and Kosovars, in conjunction with international organizations, were working together for progress in the province, Hashim Thaci, the Albanian leader of the Democratic Party in Kosovo and a member of the Interim Administrative Council of Kosovo, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
The most serious recent impact of war on humanitarian operations in the Sudan was the series of bombings on sites used by Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), Kevin Kennedy, Chief of the Emergency Liaison Branch of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The Security Council and the Sierra Leone Sanctions Committee were now ready to go far beyond what the Angola Sanctions Committee had already done, Anwarul Chowdhury, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh and Chairman of the Sierra Leone Sanctions Committee, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
Ways to monitor the implementation of commitments made by organizations and businesses taking part in the Global Compact were explored during a press conference given by a panel of corporate and non-governmental leaders held at United Nations Headquarters on 26 July.
Massive aid programmes could help African countries break out of the aid dependency trap, the Deputy-Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Carlos Fortin, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning as he introduced UNCTAD's new report "Capital Flows and Growth in Africa".
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.
