Press Conference

With the crisis in South Sudan continuing into its second week, the United Nations mission in that country was awaiting delivery of critical assets from other peacekeeping operations over the next 48 hours to bolster the protection of more than 50,000 civilians seeking refuge in its premises, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative said at a Headquarters press conference today.

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York, 23 December:

Following is an unofficial transcript of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s press briefing on the Rights Up Front Action Plan, held in New York, 19 December:

The global economy had recuperated, but continued to be subdued, according to a United Nations report, entitled World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014, launched today at Headquarters.

The President of the United Nations General Assembly, John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda), held an end-of-year press conference today at Headquarters in which he discussed highlights from the past year and outlined expected activities for 2014 and beyond, including the long-standing issue of Security Council reform.

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York, 16 December:

On a scale of 1 to 10, the fact-finding mission in Syria had achieved 8.7, the chief of the mission charged with verifying the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria said at a Headquarters press conference today.

United Nations peacekeeping operations had made significant headway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali this year, a senior official overseeing those missions told reporters at a Headquarters press conference today.

While malaria mortality rates had declined by 45 per cent globally and 49 per cent in Africa between 2000 and 2012, funding was still far short of the need to fully scale up life-saving interventions, a senior World Health Organization official said at Headquarters today.

The births of nearly 230 million children under the age of five years, about one third of that category worldwide, had never been registered, a senior official of the United Nations Children’s Fund said today.