UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES

NTEROFF1CE MEMORANDUM

TO: Mr. Kensaku Hogen DATE: 16 September 1998 A: Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information IS E HUL1 FROM: Shashi Director of Communications and Special Projects SEP 2 3 1998

SUBJECT: Coverage for Rwanda Tribunal

1. I had a chance to share with the Secretary-General your note of 8 September on media coverage of the recent decisions of the Rwanda Tribunal. He is delighted with extensive coverage it received and extends his congratulations to all concerned.

2. Allow me also to extend my personal congratulations. I know how hard you and your staff worked to ensure that this important moment in the history of the United Nations - and indeed of the world -- received the attention it merited. Please convey my appreciation in particular to Mr. Salim Lone.

Thank you. United Nations INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM L

TO: The Secretary-General DATES September 1998 A: EXECUTIVE OFFICE REFERENCE: THROUGH: S> Iqbal Riza OF THE SECRETAgY-glNERAL S'CDE: Chef de Cabinet

FROM: Kensaku Hogen, Under-Secretary-General DE: for Communications and Public Information

SUBJECT: OBJET: Coverage for Rwanda Tribunal

I am pleased to report that the campaign DPI undertook to publicise the Rwanda Tribunal yielded^excellent results. Working intensively from Headquarters and from the global network of UN Information Centres and Offices, a large number of reporters, editors and editorial writers at the most influential media were personally contacted and a larger number provided with a succinct background feature pointing to the compelling nature of the judgements to be delivered. In addition, a major effort was made to encourage African and Africa-based correspondents of international media to attend the judgements in Arusha.

The media coverage that resulted was exceptionally widespread, considering particularly the crush of other news connected to developments related to Russia, the financial markets, etc. The New York Times, for example, had a colour photograph and brief caption on its front page, and a lengthy inside story with another photograph in its 3 September issue. On 5 September, it carried a detailed story on the sentencing of the former Prime Minister, and there was also an editorial on the Tribunal. And in its 8 September issue, it carried an op-ed column on the Tribunal's work. Numerous other newspapers also carried multiple stories and editorials on the subject.

Television and radio coverage, while harder to track, seem to have been also widespread. BBC-TV and CNN, for example, gave extensive coverage on both their international and national broadcasts, and the presence of Reuters TV and AP-TV should have resulted in substantial international coverage. The same is true of radio.

A listing of newspapers which covered the Tribunal story_is_ enclosed.

cc: The Deputy Secretary-General NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF RWANDA TRIBUNAL JUDGEMENTS

Preliminary list based on information receivedfro m UNICs by 8 September 1998

(Many of the newspapers listed below carried multiple stories as well as editorial comment on the judgements handed down on 2 and 4 September 1998. Only major newspapers are included in this list.)

New York Times (USA) Washington Post (USA) US A Today (US A) Los Angeles Times (USA) Wall Street Journal (USA) Chicago Tribune (USA) The Atlanta Journal and Constitution (USA) Washington Times (USA) Boston Globe (USA)

The Toronto Star (Canada) The Times (U.K.) The Independent (U.K.) The Guardian (U.K.) The Irish Times (Ireland) The Age (Australia)

Le Monde (France) Liberation (France) Le Figaro (France) Le Croix (France) L'Humanite (France) Le Soir (Belgium) De Morgen (Belgium) De Standard (Belgium) Le Temps () Tribune de Geneve (Switzerland) (Switzerland) La Liberte de (Switzerland) Neue Zurcher Zeitung (Switzerland)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) Die Welt (Germany) Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany) Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) General-Anzeiger (Germany) Berliner Zeitung (Germany) II Corriere della Sera (Italy) II Messaggero (Italy) L'Unita (Italy) La Stampa (Italy) II Giornale (Italy) Publico (Portugal) Diario de Noticias (Portugal) Correjo da Manha (Portugal) NRC Handelsblad (The Netherlands) El Pais (Spain) El Mundo (Spain) La Vanguardia (Spain)

Mainichi Daily News (Japan) Asahi Evening News (Japan) Japan Times (Japan) Daily Yomiuri (Japan)

The Hindu (India) National Herald (India) The Asian Age (India) The Observer of Business and Politics (India) The Tribune (India) Mid Day (India) Hindustan Times (India) Newstime (India) The News (Pakistan) The Muslim (Pakistan) The Independent (Bangladesh) Tehran Times (Iran) Iran News (Iran) Iran Daily (Iran)

Egyptian Mail (Egypt) Daily Nation (Kenya) Kenya Times (Kenya) East African Standard (Kenya) The Herald (Zimbabwe) The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe) The Ghanaian Times (Ghana) Graphic Showbiz (Ghana) Daily Graphic (Ghana) Le Temps (Tunisia) Le Renouveau (Tunisia) The Monitor (Ethiopia) The Reporter (Ethiopia) The Ethiopian Herald (Ethiopia) du Sahara (Morocco) Al Bayane (Morocco)

Clarin (Argentina) La Capital (Argentina) Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina) La Pegoss (Argentina) Hoy En La Noticia (Argentina) The News (Mexico) El Universal (Mexico) Mexico City News (Mexico)