Press Conference


18 April 2006
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY Civil society groups on Secretary-General selection process


The last time Member States chose a Secretary-General, they achieved a good result from a bad process that made the selection of the Pope look democratic, civil society groups said today at a Headquarters press conference.

6 April 2006
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA


“Unemployment feeds violence, and violence feeds unemployment”, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for West Africa, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.

4 April 2006
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT


There were many different migration policies in individual countries, but a coherent, worldwide policy did not exist, Rita Sussmuth, President of Ota University in Berlin, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

4 April 2006
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 


Iran’s nuclear programme, the situation in the Sudan and the election of the next United Nations Secretary-General where the issues that dominated this afternoon’s press conference by the President of the Security Council for April, Ambassador Wang Guangya of China.

3 April 2006
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE ON MINE AWARENESS DAY


The international community would mark its first International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance for Mine Action tomorrow, to raise awareness of the problem and progress towards mine eradication, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.