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ENV/DEV/782-UNEP/220
07/05/2004
Press Release
ENV/DEV/782
UNEP/220


Kosovo Conflict Hot Spots Cleaned Up as UNEP closes


environmental clean-up operations in Serbia


(Reissued as received.)


BELGRADE/NAIROBI, 7 May (UNEP) -- Two of the health-threatening environmental “hot-spots” identified for urgent remedial action in the wake of the Kosovo Conflict in 1999 have been satisfactorily dealt with.

SG/SM/9296
07/05/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9296


SECRETARY-GENERAL appalled by mosque terror attack in pakistan


The following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is appalled by the news of yet another attack in a place of worship, this time in a mosque in the city of Karachi in Pakistan, which has reportedly killed about a dozen innocent worshippers and wounded about 100 more.