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Press Conference

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

5 October 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Carol Bellamy told a Headquarters briefing today that the leadership of Sierra Leone had reaffirmed full commitment to the demobilization of child combatants. They had expressed concern, however, that it was a difficult task to achieve in a war situation.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE CONVENTION

1 October 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE CONVENTION

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The Ottawa Treaty to ban landmines was a "convention of conscience" that had acquired the force of binding international law with historic speed, although only the first battle in a long struggle had been won, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT OF UNION OF BURMA

30 September 1998



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT OF UNION OF BURMA

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"If a disastrous confrontation is to be averted in Burma, the United Nations must support the efforts of the democratic forces in Burma to seek a non-violent negotiated solution", Dr. Sein Win, prime minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, said at a Headquarters press briefing sponsored by the Mission of Denmark this afternoon.