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SEA/1678
25 May 2000


Press Release
SEA/1678


PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION APPROVE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL 2001 BUDGET

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The Tenth Meeting of States parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea this morning approved, as orally amended, an $8,090,900 budget for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, for 2001.

SG/SM/7417
24 May 2000


Press Release
SG/SM/7417


SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES AMBUSH SLAYING OF TWO JOURNALISTS IN SIERRA LEONE

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The following statement was issued this evening by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General was saddened by the news out of Sierra Leone today that two journalists were killed and two more were injured in an ambush launched by suspected members of the Revolutionary United Front.