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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND

"I want to listen from the heart and I want to hear what these women have to say, because everybody has value ... We may have different nations, but we all have one heart", said actress Linda Gray this morning. She was speaking at a Headquarters press conference to launch an international campaign for reproductive health care, gender, equality and empowerment throughout the world.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQI DISARMAMENT

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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA PRESS CONFERENCE ON LANDMINES

Bosnia and Herzegovina contained approximately 3 million landmines, or an estimated 152 mines per square mile, making it "the most infested" country in the world, that country's Permanent Representative, Muhamed Sacirbey, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION

At a Headquarters press briefing this morning, a team of United Nations economists introduced a note of the Secretary-General on The World Economy at the Beginning of 1998 forecasting a picture of global economic growth despite the current financial crisis in South-East Asia. The note will be submitted to the 1998 organizational session of the Economic and Social Council.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON RWANDA TRIBUNAL

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon to mark Human Rights Day, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Gustave Speth, said a third of the people in the developing world were imprisoned by poverty. It was a prison so complete that it denied them their fundamental rights, such as the right to life, liberty and to a meaningful existence.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON REFUGEES

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY NORWAY ON AFGHANISTAN

At a Headquarters press conference yesterday evening, 3 December, Leiv Lunde, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, said the basic motivation for the continued presence of humanitarian groups in Afghanistan was to alleviate the sufferings of the war-weary people of that country.