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Noon Briefings


26/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General

25/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good Afternoon,


**Iraq


Earlier today, the Secretary-General’s acting Special Representative for Iraq, RossMountain, arrived in Baghdad.

24/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Statement Attributable to the Spokesman on Earthquake in Morocco


We’ll start with a statement attributable to the Spokesman regarding the earthquake in Morocco:

23/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Iraq Team


As you now know, the Secretary-General has sent the recommendations of the Iraq electoral fact-finding team to the Iraqi Governing Council, to the Coalition Provisional Authority and to the members of the Security Council.

20/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good Afternoon,


**Guest at Noon


Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Côte d’Ivoire, will be joining us today to give you an update on the humanitarian situation in that country.


**Human Rights

18/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General


I am going to start with a statement regarding the tragic train derailment in Iran.

17/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Japan Trip


The Secretary-General is scheduled to leave on Friday on an official visit to Japan.  He is due back in New York the middle of next week and details of the visit will be made before the end of the week.

12/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Cyprus


The Secretary-General expects to meet this afternoon at 3 with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders, once again.  This will be for a third day of discussions on the basis of his plan for Cyprus.

11/02/2004
Press Briefing


DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.


Good afternoon.


**Cyprus


This afternoon at 4 p.m., Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders will meet again with the Secretary-General to resume the discussions, which were adjourned late yesterday afternoon.