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PRESS BRIEFING ON TORTURE VICTIMS AND CONVENTION

United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is to be commemorated for the first time tomorrow, Friday 26 June, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, the new Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced at a Headquarters press briefing this morning. An exhibition on torture would be opened at Headquarters.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL JOSEPH CONNOR

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER FOR UN SPECIAL INITIATIVE ON AFRICA

Accountability, transparency and measures against corruption were the focus of the Second Africa Governance Forum, the Special Adviser for the United Nations Special Initiative on Africa, Trevor Gordon-Sommers, said this afternoon at a briefing to announce the holding of the Forum next week on 25 and 26 June in Accra, Ghana.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON

Lebanon and Syria were ready to sign a peace agreement in three months if Israel decided to go ahead with peace negotiations, Prime Minister Rafic Hariri of Lebanon said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. That position was very clear and highly appreciated by the United States Government, he added.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY HEAD OF UN POLITICAL OFFICE FOR SOMALIA

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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PRESS BRIEFING BY INCB PRESIDENT

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UN OFFICE FOR DRUG CONTROL AND CRIME PREVENTION

Participation at the twentieth special session of the General Assembly devoted to countering the world drug problem together, was beyond expectations, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Pino Arlacchi, said at a Headquarters press briefing yesterday afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT RABBANI OF AFGHANISTAN

Since the Taliban came into Afghanistan, there had been an increase in the cultivation and traffic of narcotics, an attack on women's civil rights, and the whole system of education had been abandoned, said Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan, at a press conference this afternoon at Headquarters.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA

Last year, Costa Rican police seized eight tons of cocaine that was in transit through the country, President Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.