The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of Greece, Yannos Kranidiotis, met with correspondents at a Headquarters press conference yesterday afternoon, following his meeting with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to exchange views on Cyprus.
At a Headquarters press briefing yesterday afternoon, Under-Secretary- General for Administration and Management Joseph E. Connor briefed correspondents on the proposed programme budget for the 1998-1999 biennium (document A/52/6).
President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone now in Guinea had appealed to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for immediate assistance to restore civilian rule in his country, the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations told a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Namibia had recognized the new Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Sam Nujoma of Namibia announced at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Joseph E. Connor, Under-Secretary for Administration and Management, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing yesterday afternoon, 21 May, that there had been no real change in the United Nations financial situation in the last two years and that the Organization continued to be on the edge financially.
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.
