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Press Conference


23 September 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND STATES

19990923

Small island States themselves must accept primary responsibility for sustainable development, Ambassador Tuiloma Neroni Slade (Samoa), Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference. That, he said, was a fundamental element of the Barbados Programme of Action.

23 September 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS

19990923

A solution to the Cyprus problem would be beneficial to the island's two communities, erase an obstacle in relations between Greece and Turkey and contribute to stability in both the Aegean and the Mediterranean, Glafcos Clerides, President of Cyprus, said at a Headquarters’ press conference this morning.

23 September 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF NETHERLANDS

19990923

Small arms posed big challenges to everyone, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Jozias Van Aartsen, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

22 September 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF CANADA

19990922

Canada believed there must be a fully mandated United Nations peacekeeping mission to support reconciliation in Sierra Leone, Lloyd Axworthy, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. Regrettably, efforts to achieve that aim had not been successful so far.

22 September 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA

19990922

Colombia would not accept any type of intervention in the conflict between the Government and rebels opposing it, President Andres Pastrana Arango said at a Headquarters press conference Monday afternoon. The solution had to be a political one reached through dialogue and agreement.

22 September 1999



Press Briefing


PRESS CONFERENCE BY ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAMBERTO DINI

19990922

The Italian Foreign Minister, Lamberto Dini, has outlined to a Headquarters press conference a proposed new set of principles, which he says could guide and facilitate future international interventions.