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PRESS BRIEFING SPONSORED BY DIVISION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The world's attention must be drawn to the urgent necessity of looking comprehensively into freshwater matters, Claude Martin, Director-General of the World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF) said this morning at a Headquarters press briefing sponsored by the Division for Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ANGOLA

The political situation in Angola was "fairly satisfactory" but the military situation in three of the provinces was "disturbing", Alioune Blondin Beye, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Angola, and Njuguna Mahugu, Chairman of the Angola Sanctions Committee, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadako Ogata, called on the international community to mobilize the same amount of resources and attention now devoted to solving conflict and post-conflict problems in the former Yugoslavia to similar situations in Africa.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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PRESS BRIEFING ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HIGH-LEVEL MEETING

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo would not request the return of the team investigating alleged massacres there because it had never asked the United Nations to withdraw it, Andre Mwamba Kapanga, that country's permanent representative to the United Nations, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF DRUG CONTROL, CRIME PREVENTION

A new strategy for combating drugs from both the supply and demand ends will be introduced during the June special session of the General Assembly on illicit drugs, the Executive Director of the Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Pino Arlaachi, said this afternoon, during a press briefing at United Nations Headquarters.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON 1998 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY OF ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION

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PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

At a Headquarters press conference this morning, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Radmila Milentijevic, former Minister for Information of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia, said the Serbian Government was firmly committed to the preservation of the Republic's integrity and its borders.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Carol Bellamy, briefing correspondents this afternoon on her recent trip to Afghanistan, told about a group of women that, asked to talk about their hopes and desires, said that they hoped for peace and for their children to be allowed to go to school. They were also very much interested in freedom, she added.