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PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY UNITED STATES MISSION

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PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF ICC PREPARATORY COMMISSION

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PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT POLICY ON UN Y2K READINESS

The Headquarters building would be closed from 1 p.m. on 31 December until 4 January to allow testing and servicing of Year 2000 (Y2K)-related contingency plans, correspondents were told this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON REPORT OF RWANDA INQUIRY TEAM

A lack of resources and a lack of the commitment necessary to prevent genocide constituted the “overriding failure” behind what happened in Rwanda in 1994, correspondents were told at a Headquarters news conference today.

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BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER ON CYPRUS

The Cyprus proximity talks at Headquarters have officially adjourned to allow for consultations and also for the holiday period, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Cyprus told correspondents at a press briefing yesterday afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR OF DIVISION FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT

The most fundamental social development question was whether globalization would result in a society for all, or in scattered islands of prosperity in a sea of poverty, anger and desperation, John Langmore, of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF ANTI-TERRORISM WORKING GROUP

The International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted last Thursday by the General Assembly, was introduced to correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning by Philippe Kirsch of Canada, the Chairman of the Assembly’s Ad Hoc Working Group on terrorism, which prepared the text.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY NEW YORK OFFICE OF HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

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PRESS BRIEFING ON OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO CONVENTION ON ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL

Now, more than ever, the 50-year-old United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had a role to play as a stabilizing force, if the final status talks on the Middle East were to yield a comprehensive and just peace.