The humanitarian situation in Iraq will get "worse and worse" unless urgent measures are taken to alleviate it and contain the risk of further deterioration, the Executive Director, Office of the Iraq Programme, Benon Sevan, said at a Headquarters press briefing Tuesday.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) should be dedicated to economic, social and strategic cooperation among former Soviet republics and not merely a mechanism for their "civilized divorce", Permanent Representative of Belarus Alyaksandr Sychou said this morning, in a press conference at Headquarters.
At a Headquarters press conference this morning, the European Union Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner, Emma Bonino, appealed for the establishment of a permanent international criminal court. She was joined by the President of Trinidad and Tobago, Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robertson, and by the Minister of Justice of Senegal, Jacques Baudin.
Opening a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, Alex Taukatch, spokesman for the President of the General Assembly, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine) told correspondents that the effects of the Chernobyl disaster -- the worst nuclear power plant accident in history -- continued to haunt the most deeply affected countries.
There were many new abuses of human rights in territory of the former Yugoslavia, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Rehn, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
