In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


4 August 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON PLANS TO LIMIT ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS

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The proposed United Nations conference on illicit arms trade should focus mainly on small arms and light weapons manufactured to military specifications, according to a panel of experts in a report released at United Nations Headquarters today and presented at a press briefing.

2 August 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ON CIS COUNTRIES REPORT

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There was enormous strain on the societies of the former Soviet Union whose situation resembled a ticking time-bomb, Anton Kruiderink, Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), said at a Headquarters press briefing today.

23 July 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON UN OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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The biggest lesson of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be applied in Kosovo was the recognition that there should be one international leadership giving more responsibility to local political leaders in solving problems, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elizabeth Rehn, said this afternoon.