It was time to put the negative image of the Rwanda Tribunal aside, the Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Agwu Ukiwe Okali, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Elisabeth Rehn, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, briefed correspondents this afternoon on the problems and achievements of her first two months in Sarajevo.
The United States welcomed the opportunity to "set the record straight" and publicly lay out the facts concerning the case of Pan Am flight 103 and the United Nations sanctions against Libya, the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The Director of the Freedom of Expression and Democracy Unit of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Alain Modoux, briefed correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon on the occasion of the launching of UNESCO's 1998 World Communication Report.
Noting that the security situation had largely improved in Burundi, Foreign Minister Luc Rukingama this afternoon appealed for an end to economic sanctions against his country. He told a Headquarters press conference that a peace process, involving the population and all political forces, was being pursued in open-ended dialogue at seminars and round-table conferences.
