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PRESS CONFERENCE ON CHERNOBYL DISASTER
19971124
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.
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PRESS BRIEFING ON TREATY TO BAN LANDMINES
19971121
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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNSCOM EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
19971120
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PRESS CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
19971114
Press Briefing
PRESS BRIEFINGS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS
19971113
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.
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PRESS CONFERENCE BY HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
19971113
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.
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PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON IRAQI DISARMAMENT
19971113
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.