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PRESS CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN UNION'S ASSESSMENT OF FIFTY-THIRD SESSION

The United Nations needed a sound and predictable financial basis to carry out the many mandates given to it by the just-ended fifty-third session of the General Assembly, Ernst Sucharipa, Permanent Representative of Austria, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNDP RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE IN BURUNDI

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PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR OF DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FOR UNHCR

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PRESS BRIEFING BY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The Office of the Human Rights Commissioner needed more resources to support human rights mechanisms and treaty bodies and to be a catalyst for human rights initiatives, the High Commissioner, Mary Robinson, said at a Headquarters' press briefing this morning.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE WINNERS

United Nations Human Rights Defenders Award winner Angelina Acheng Atyam of Uganda appealed this morning to the international press to expose the abduction and enslavement of Ugandan children by local rebel groups.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON 1998 GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS

There could not be human rights without women's rights, correspondents were told this afternoon in a press conference on the 1998 Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights to demand greater attention and resources to protect and promote women's human rights.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY MONGOLIA

The Government of Mongolia was optimistic that Member States, including the five-nuclear-weapon States, would cooperate in strengthening its international security environment, thereby rendering its quest for nuclear-weapon-free status stronger and more credible, the Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations told a Headquarters press conference on Monday afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF ASSEMBLY'S LEGAL COMMITTEE

The General Assembly's Sixth Committee (Legal) completed its work for the fifty-third session yesterday afternoon, approving 12 resolutions and two decisions, all without a vote, Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan (Mongolia), Chairman of the Committee said at a Headquarters press conference today.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF LAW OF SEA TRIBUNAL

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PRESS BRIEFING ON UNIVERSAL NETWORKING LANGUAGE

At a Headquarters press briefing today, representatives from the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies demonstrated the use of a computer language -- known as the Universal Networking Language (UNL) -- for multilingual communication on the Internet.