Example sentences of "spokesman for the un " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as a spokesman for the UN 's International Maritime Organisation said ‘ there 's nothing to stop a tanker 's skipper dumping oil and blaming it on the war ’ . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the UN Compensation Fund [ see pp. 38211 ; 38406 ] said on Oct. 29 that the Fund 's governing body at a recent meeting in Geneva had decided to ask Iraq to pay compensation to an estimated 2,000,000 people who had incurred losses as result of the Gulf war . |
| 3 | On Jan. 7 a spokesman for the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait said in Geneva that a minimum of US$145,300,000 would be needed to protect and assist Kurds over the next six months . |
| 4 | Peter Kessler , spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , said it was hoped the ten-truck convoy which set out from Belgrade on Sunday could now proceed to the village of Cerska , where some 25,000 Muslims are trapped . |
| 5 | ‘ It is only with a ceasefire that it will be possible to save the traumatised population of Angola , and the United Nations are ready to help once the hostilities cease , ’ said Joao Lins de Albuquerque , spokesman for the UN representative , Margaret Anstee . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the UN force in Lebanon said a Nepali had been killed and another seriously wounded when two mortar bombs fired by the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army militia hit their post in the village of Yater . |
| 7 | ‘ Luckily , they managed to get out without a scratch , ’ said a spokesman for the UN Protection Force , Unprofor . |