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Press Conference


25 October 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

19991025

Savings of some $120 million had been identified by the Office of Internal Oversight Services in the past five years, and more than $70 million in savings had been realized, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, Karl Paschke told journalists at a Headquarters press briefing today.

20 October 1999



Press Briefing


BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY TO AFGHANISTAN

19991020

While the United Nations would continue to work for peace in Afghanistan, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, would cease to be actively involved until the situation there changed, correspondents were told at today's noon briefing.

20 October 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY

19991020

The President of the International Peace Academy (IPA), David Mallone, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon that the biggest problem in the political culture of Haiti was a reluctance to compromise. Constructing good governance in Haiti was a difficult task, he said.

19 October 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON BURUNDI

19991019

Cheikh Tidiane Sy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations office in Burundi, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today that United Nations operations there had entered phase four, which meant that its activities in the field had been drastically reduced.

15 October 1999



Press Briefing


BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF UNEP/HABITAT BALKANS TASK FORCE

19991015

There was an urgent need to include environmental action as part of humanitarian assistance to the Balkans in the wake of the Kosovo conflict, Pekka Haavisto, Chairman of the Joint United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) Balkans Task Force (BTF), said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

12 October 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION

19991012

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change Convention, Michael Zammit Cutajar, briefed correspondents this morning at Headquarters on the Fifth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-5), to be held from 25 October to 5 November in Bonn, Germany.