Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN POPULATION FUND

8 February 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN POPULATION FUND

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Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe 1999, who has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for Botswana, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning that she hoped to use the position to promote the rights of women and youth to information on family planning and to receive proper sexual and reproductive health care and services.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

8 February 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

20000208

Armed conflict and the HIV/AIDS pandemic had made sub-Saharan Africa the only region in which the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was working where the conditions of children had continued to get worse over the past 10 years, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Urban Jonsson, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

3 February 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

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The recently-elected President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Claude Jorda, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the purpose of his visit to New York was to discuss the future of the Tribunal, as well as a possible timetable for its reform.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNMIK POLICE COMMISSIONER

2 February 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY UNMIK POLICE COMMISSIONER

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The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) urgently needed international police officers, the UNMIK Police Commissioner told correspondents at a headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL PRESIDENT

1 February 2000



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL PRESIDENT

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"The Role of Information Technology in the Knowledge-Based Economy" would be the special topic of the high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council this year, the newly-elected President of the Council, Makarim Wibisono (Indonesia), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.