The permanent representatives of several Central American countries appealed today for the international community to help their governments deal with the terrible damage caused by hurricane Mitch.
The Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Nitin Desai, updated correspondents on the outcome of last week's meeting of the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), at a Headquarters briefing today.
"Roll Back Malaria", a new campaign designed by the World Health Organization (WHO), was officially launched today at a Headquarters press conference. The campaign is being undertaken in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.
Everyone was talking about the use of flexible economic instruments in environmental policy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer said today at a Headquarters press briefing.
The Third United Nations Global Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) will be held in Vienna from 19 to 30 July 1999, the Director of the Office of Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations Office at Vienna, Nandasiri Jasentuliyana Duliyana, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Karl Paschke told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the general message of his report was that the functioning of internal oversight was proof of a better, healthier United Nations.
The Director of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Joseph Chamie, told a Headquarters press briefing this morning that the decrease in mortality was probably humanity's greatest achievement.
A petition of more than 13 million signatures in support of a campaign calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons was initiated in Japan by a second-generation Hiroshima survivor, a representative of Soka Gakkai International, Andrew Gebert, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
