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Press Conference

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIERRA LEONE

10 October 1996



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIERRA LEONE

19961010 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

Sierra Leone President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon that, since he took office six months ago, his Government had been preoccupied with establishing peace and rebuilding the economic and social infrastructure.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY AFGHANISTAN

1 October 1996



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY AFGHANISTAN

19961001 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

At a Headquarters press conference yesterday afternoon, Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan presented to correspondents the text of a Declaration of his country's Supreme Council, issued on 27 September regarding the escalating crisis there.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNTAES ADMINISTRATOR

1 October 1996



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNTAES ADMINISTRATOR

19961001 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

At a Headquarters press briefing today, Jacques Klein of the United Nations Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES), told reporters the stabilization of the region was a United Nations success story. On both the military and civilian side, he said, the mission was credible and successful.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF

30 September 1996



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF

19960930 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

The mid-decade goal of the 1990 World Summit for Children of 80 per cent immunization coverage for diphtheria, measles, polio, tuberculosis and whooping cough had been met by 129 countries, Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.