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Press Conference


11 March 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN LIBERIA

19990311

Felix Downes-Thomas, Representative of the Secretary-General in Liberia and Head of the United Nations Peace-building Support Office, told correspondents this afternoon that while stability and peace seemed to be holding in Liberia, from a sub-regional perspective, there were enough independent elements for divisiveness in the region.

5 March 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY ERITREA

19990305

Mass deportations had been taking place in Ethiopia, in which between 500 and 1,800 people were deported at once, Asmaron Legesse, Director of Research of the non-governmental organization Citizens for Peace in Eritrea told correspondents at a press conference at Headquarters on Thursday.

3 March 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY

19990303

Germany not only had an interest in continuing to strengthen the United Nations, it also believed that there was no alternative to the Organization as a platform for peace, development and security in the world, Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Joschka Fischer, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

3 March 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN COUNT NETWORK

19990303

A Global Fact Sheet on the economic value of breastfeeding was being launched, Phoebe Jones Shellenberg of the International Women Count Network told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

1 March 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY MEMBERS OF GUATEMALAN HISTORICAL CLARIFICATION COMMISSION

19990301

Massacres, human rights violations and other atrocities described by some 9,000 witnesses and survivors clearly illustrated a governmental policy of genocide in Guatemala, correspondents were told by members of the Historical Clarification Commission of Guatemala at a Headquarters' press conference this afternoon.

1 March 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON 1998 DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION REPORT

19990301

The 1998 Development Cooperation Report was a reminder of the opportunities of an inclusive kind of globalization, and of the potential of human solidarity, James Michel, departing Chair of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.