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Press Conference


13 November 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQI DISARMAMENT

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The Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission set up under Security Council resolution 687 (1991) to monitor the disposal of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (UNSCOM), Richard Butler, told correspondents at today's noon briefing that he had decided to withdraw most UNSCOM personnel from Iraq and leave only a skeleton staff at its Baghdad Centre.

13 November 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFINGS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS

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At press briefings at Headquarters today, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for internally displaced persons, Francis Deng, briefed correspondents on their work.

7 November 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQI DISARMAMENT

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Iraqi officials had again blocked the Baghdad Monitoring and Verification Centre's attempt to conduct inspections in the Baghdad area, the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on the Disarmament of Iraq, Richard Butler, said this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

31 October 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

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The dispute over the Lockerbie air atrocity was a very important case in the constitutional history of the United Nations, Judge Stephen Schwebel, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.