Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Press Conference

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNHCR

28 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNHCR

19970428 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadako Ogata, this afternoon said that the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire had given UNHCR 60 days in which to repatriate the estimated 80,000 Rwandan refugees that recently disappeared from encampments south of Kisangani, Zaire.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY OBSERVER FOR PALESTINE

25 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY OBSERVER FOR PALESTINE

19970425 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The adoption by the General Assembly of its draft resolution A/ES-10/L.1 on the illegal actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory would help achieve the requirements for peace in the Middle East, Nasser Al-Kidwa, Permanent Observer for Palestine told a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY IRAQ SANCTIONS COMMITTEE

25 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY IRAQ SANCTIONS COMMITTEE

19970425 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

At Headquarters Thursday afternoon, Ana Gomes briefed correspondents on behalf of the Chairman of the Iraq Sanctions Committee, Antonio Monteiro (Portugal). The Committee was established by Security Council resolution 661 (1990).

PRESS CONFERENCE BY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

25 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

19970425 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

At a Headquarters press conference Thursday afternoon, the American rock and roll band Grand Funk Railroad presented a mock check for $30,000 to the Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the amount they raised for humanitarian relief in that country from a sold-out concert in Detroit.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON 'SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS EXAM'

18 April 1997



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON 'SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS EXAM'

19970418 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

Students preparing for a career in business, finance and government are to be challenged to take the "Sustainable Business Exam" on the Internet on 5 June, World Environment Day, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.