PRESS CONFERENCE ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY THEMATIC DEBATE ON HUMAN SECURITY

The international community should direct its focus to the role of multilateralism in crisis avoidance, Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, keynote speaker at the General Assembly’s first-ever thematic debate on human security, said today.

PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH NEW REPORT ON THREAT OF GLOBAL TERRORISM

Contrary to “expert consensus”, the threat of terrorism -– however defined -– was declining, Andrew Mack, Director of the Human Security Report Project said at Headquarters today.

PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH REPORT BY COALITION TO STOP CHILD SOLDIERS’ USE

PRESS CONFERENCE on ‘world economic situation and prospects’

PRESS CONFERENCE on report ‘saving water from field to fork’

PRESS CONFERENCE on myanmar BY emergency relief coordinator

With aid arriving in Myanmar in increasing quantities, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator urged the country’s Government to allow international relief workers into the area affected by the recent cyclone, in order to distribute supplies and coordinate assistance.

PRESS CONFERENCE on water and sanitation issues

 

Water and sanitation -- two of the issues currently being discussed by the Commission on Sustainable Development -- are closely related to international sustainable development goals, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME ON NEW TREE CAMPAIGN

PRESS CONFERENCE ON DISABILITIES CONVENTION ENTRY INTO FORCE

PRESS CONFERENCE ON MYANMAR BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s press conference on Myanmar by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes: