PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING

 

ON SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN UNION FORCE IN SUDAN

While the situation in Darfur continued to be unacceptable, it had stabilized in areas where African Union troops were deployed, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

 

If more people were aware of the very serious nuclear risk, they would not tolerate what was going on right now in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, former United States Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara, said today at a Headquarters briefing just days before the Treaty review’s conclusion.

PRESS BRIEFING BY HEAD OF UN INVESTIGATION INTO ASSASSINATION

OF FORMER LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE

 

Fun, collaborative, healthy and relatively inexpensive, sport was also an immensely powerful tool for social development and the development of values, be it in wealthy nations, or impoverished or conflict countries, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

Press conference by SIERRA LEONE COURT PRESIDENT

 

With the Special Court for Sierra Leone about to end its first mandate at the end of 2005, it faced several challenges that needed to be addressed, including those of funding, security and cooperation in the transfer of indictees, the President of the Court told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY BY MAYORS FOR PEACE,

PARLIAMENTARY NETWORK FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CANADA NATIVE WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION

The Native Women’s Association of Canada announced today at a Headquarters press conference that the Canadian Government would provide $5 million over five years to support its “Sisters in Spirit” initiative, aimed at focusing attention on violence against aboriginal women across Canada.

PRESS BRIEFING BY MOROCCO ON WESTERN SAHARA

Speaking to correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning, a group of former Moroccan prisoners of war, veterans of a conflict in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, appealed to the international community to demand the release of 408 of their fellow detainees.

Press conference by PARTNERSHIP FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ ENVIRONMENT

The first non-governmental organization Internet portal for indigenous peoples worldwide would be launched in Conference Room 4, United Nations Headquarters, at 6 p.m. on 26 May, Goodluck Diigbo, President of the Partnership for Indigenous Peoples’ Environment (PIPE), said this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF LEGAL AFFAIRS TO LAUNCH BOOKLET

 

ON TREATIES RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES