An integrated international policy on ocean affairs was the goal of the informal consultative process convening at Headquarter this week, correspondents were told this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.
The Millennium Forum, a week-long gathering of international civil society organizations, had succeeded in producing a consensus declaration of their views and recommendations on the role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century, correspondents were told this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.
Following its forced removal as a legitimate member of the Peace Implementation Council on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yugoslavia would not consider itself bound by any decisions taken by the Council, a representative of the Yugoslav Mission to the United Nations told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of todays noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Lebanon
Following month-long exhausting negotiations, agreement had been reached on the final document of the 2000 Review Conference of Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Conference President Abdallah Baali (Algeria) told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
In the end, actions would mean much more than the words that countries had been fighting over for the last four weeks, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this morning, sponsored by the Department for Disarmament Affairs.
The implementation of the Secretary-General's proposal for land reform in Zimbabwe by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was expected to produce a political solution through a development and technical approach, UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown told correspondents during a briefing today.
