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.
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.
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.
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.
Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference that the "quite extraordinary" spread of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa risks wiping out the gains made in children's health in the last two decades.
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa said his country would pursue with others the need to restructure the United Nations.
Following today's noon briefing by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General, David McLachlan-Karr, acting head of the Asia-Latin America section of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), briefed reporters on the current state of humanitarian operations in East Timor.
