The President of the Friends of the United Nations, Noel Brown, briefed correspondents at Headquarters Monday, to mark the International Day Of Tolerance and honour the recipients of the first Global Tolerance Award.
Asylbek A. Aidaraliev (Kyrgyzstan) told a Headquarters press conference yesterday that promoting the sustainable development of mountains was chief among the reasons his Government had proposed the international community dedicate a year to mountains.
"Anyone on the ground will tell you this is the worst natural disaster to hit Central America in two centuries", a spokesman for the World Food Programme (WFP), Abby Spring, said during a Headquarters briefing upon her return from a week-long mission to Nicaragua in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.
Every day was a fight to ensure that the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords was not forgotten, said the Special Representative and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elisabeth Rehn, at a Headquarters press briefing today.
George Kell, an economist in the Executive Office of the Secretary- General, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today to launch the 1998 World Investment Report, that once again, foreign direct investment (FDI) had hit new record levels in all major country groupings.
The main issue in Cambodia was the continuous problem of impunity, Thomas Hammarberg, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights in Cambodia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.
