At a Headquarters press conference today, the Foreign Minister of Honduras, ROBERTO BERMUDEZ, expressed concern about the response of the Government of Nicaragua to a maritime treaty about to enter into force between Honduras and Colombia.
By responding to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, the United Nations was not merely "dumping resources into a black hole of need", but was enabling hundreds of thousands of Somalis to come to grips with their own lives, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
"Hope is in short supply in Burundi these days", the Humanitarian Coordinator for Burundi told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
Proximity talks between the Cypriot parties are to begin tomorrow, Friday, 3 December, at Headquarters, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Cyprus told correspondents this afternoon at a press briefing.
The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), instead of being neutralized, was now the de facto master of the situation in most cities and towns in the Serbian province, Vladislav Jovanovic, Chargé d'Affaires at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the United Nations, told correspondents at Headquarters this morning.
The Secretary-Generals report on Srebrenica, released unofficially earlier this week, broke new ground and contained many valuable lessons for the future, Muhamed Sacirbey, the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, told correspondents at a Headquarters conference this morning.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sasakawa Prize would be a powerful incentive to continue work for the good of the environment, the 1999 winner, Mario Molina, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today shortly before the official award ceremony.
