Namibia had recognized the new Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Sam Nujoma of Namibia announced at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The number of politically motivated disappearances worldwide was at least three times greater than official United Nations figures, the Chairman of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Ivan Tosevski, said this afternoon at a press conference at Headquarters.
United States President William Clinton "speaks very poetically in support of a ban on land-mines and we would beg him to put a signature to his words", Tun Channareth, a double-amputee land-mine victim told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.
The outgoing Executive Chairman of the United Nation Special Commission charged with the destruction of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Rolf Ekeus, said at today's noon briefing that he was delighted with the Secretary- General's selection of Australia's Permanent Representative, Richard Butler, as the Special Commission's new Executive Chairman.
