The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda told correspondents this afternoon that without Rwandas cooperation, the Tribunal could not continue to try cases.
Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, outgoing President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, held a press briefing at Headquarters this afternoon. She noted that, in her statement to the General Assembly this morning, she had said that internal and external challenges must be addressed if the Tribunal was to succeed.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
Steven Allen, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (excluding Kosovo), told correspondents at a press briefing this afternoon that poverty in that country was on the increase.
Decades of misrule followed by successive waves of fighting had resulted in an acute humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, correspondents were told this afternoon by the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Kinshasa, at a press briefing at Headquarters.
