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Press Conference

PRESS BRIEFING ON CONCLUSION OF WORK OF AD HOC COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S SPECIAL SESSION ON CAIRO OUTCOME

2 July 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON CONCLUSION OF WORK OF AD HOC COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S SPECIAL SESSION ON CAIRO OUTCOME

19990702

The way to avoid abortions was to provide access to family planning contraceptive methods and to enable women actually to use those services, Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PERU

30 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PERU

19990630

Family planning programmes have achieved considerable success in Peru, President Alberto Fujimori said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE

25 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE

19990625

Part of the healing process for victims of torture was the end of impunity, which was this year's message for the second observance of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, said the Officer-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Elsa Stamatopoulou.