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Press Conference


14 July 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORKING GROUP ON STRENGTHENING UN SYSTEM

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The President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia), Chairman of the Assembly's open-ended high-level working group on the strengthening of the United Nations system, and its two Vice-Chairmen, Prakash Shah (India) and Hans Jacob Bjorn Lian (Norway), held a press conference at Headquarters this morning to introduce the group's report (document A/51/24).

10 July 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNDP RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE/ UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COORDINATOR IN ANGOLA

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At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative/United Nations Special Coordinator in Angola, Bernard Ntegeye, briefed correspondents on the efforts of the United Nations in that country to consolidate peace.

3 July 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA

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The joint United Nations/Organization of African Unity (OAU) Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region, Mohamed Sahnoun, this afternoon briefed correspondents on the situation in Congo-Brazzaville, following his briefing to the Security Council on the matter.

27 June 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON UNTAES

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The United Nations Transitional Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, Jacques Klein, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing yesterday, 26 June, that he was in New York to brief the Security Council on developments in his area of operation, on which the Secretary-General had just issued a report (document S/1997/487).

27 June 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY NEW CHIEF OF DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMME

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At a Headquarter's press conference today, Senator Pino Arlucchi of Italy, said he would take up his appointment as the new Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna and the Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme on 1 September. He hoped to better integrate the Organization's efforts to combat global crime challenge.