In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


13 March 1996



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMNARK ON EVALUATION OF ASSISTANCE TO RWANDA

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"Humanitarian action cannot substitute for political action", said USAID consultant and main author of the Synthesis Report of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda, John Eriksson, at a Headquarters press conference Tuesday morning.

27 February 1996



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY LIBYA

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The ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) favouring its jurisdiction over the Lockerbie case clearly favoured Libya's position, the Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, Abuzed Dorda, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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MODERATOR: Good morning. I have the pleasure to introduce His Excellency Professor Diogo Freitas do Amaral, President of the General Assembly, who has been here, as you know, from the beginning of the Assembly and who has developed his own creative proposals and ideas, in addition to the official functions he is performing as President of the Assembly. I take the opportunity to welcome him here and to invite him to take the floor.