At a Headquarters press conference this morning, Mitsuro Donowaki, Chairman of the Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms and Special Assistant to the Foreign Minister of Japan, presented the Panel's report to correspondents. It had been presented to the Secretary-General earlier in the day.
At a Headquarters press conference today, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia to the United Nations, Prince Sisowath Sirirath, denounced the election of a new First Prime Minister by Cambodia's National Assembly this morning.
The President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alirza Ogly Aliyev, at a press conference at Headquarters yesterday afternoon, said his country was involved in the process of building a democratic society, furthering its relations with the United States and developing its economy on market principles.
Anthony Hewett, representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Bangkok, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing this afternoon that UNICEF had increased its appeal for the malnourished children in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from $4.7 million to $14.3 million.
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Judge Louise Arbour, this afternoon described as extremely important the arrest on Friday, 18 July, in Kenya of seven people -- virtually all of them key figures in the national leadership of the 1996 interim Government in Rwanda.
The first President of Seychelles and current leader of the opposition party, Sir James R. Mancham, said this afternoon that a forum for national reconciliation within nations should be established to address internal differences that caused a majority of the world's conflicts. He was speaking at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters.
