Briefing by Spokesperson for Secretary-General

Briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and Kai Eide, Secretary-General's Special Representative and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:30:07
• Production Date: 19 June 1997
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FRED ECKHARD; KAI EIDE
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - UNMIBH; WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: CHILD SOLDIERS; HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; POLITICAL AFFAIRS; SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS BUDGET
• Geographic Subject: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CYPRUS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RWANDA; SIERRA LEONE; TIMOR-LESTE; WESTERN SAHARA
• MAMS Id: 2347737
• Parent Id: 846374

Description

Fred Eckhard, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by reading out the following statement by the Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Yasushi Akashi.

The Secretary-General's report on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) was released today.

The Security Council was briefed this morning by the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kai Eide.

East Timor talks got under way, the Secretary-General had met briefly with the Foreign Ministers of Portugal and Indonesia before chairing the opening of the talks.

The Security Council was briefed by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast on Western Sahara.

Papua New Guinea today became the sixty-sixth Member State to have paid in full its United Nations contribution for the current year with a cheque of $106,508.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) had issued a press release today on child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

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