Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

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Press Conference

PRESS CONFERENCE BY WORKING GROUP ON DISAPPEARANCES

16 May 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY WORKING GROUP ON DISAPPEARANCES

19970516 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

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.

PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY CANADA ON LAND-MINE BAN

13 May 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY CANADA ON LAND-MINE BAN

19970513 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

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.

PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ SPECIAL COMMISSION

1 May 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ SPECIAL COMMISSION

19970501 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

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.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ALBANIA

30 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ALBANIA

19970430 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY