Press Conference

PRESS BRIEFING ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

The time had come not to have more major conferences, but to “roll up our sleeves” and start implementing the commitments already undertaken, Economic and Social Council President Marjatta Rasi (Finland) told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press briefing on the state of the world’s least developed countries (LDCs).

PRESS BRIEFING ON NIGERIA POLIO ERADICATION

The Government and United Nations agencies were now poised for a massive effort to re-launch a polio eradication programme in Nigeria, correspondents were told today at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER LAKHDAR BRAHIMI

“The UN was not looking for a job, not begging for a role in Iraq, but if the Iraqis wanted it, whatever capabilities the United Nations had were at their disposal”, Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, said today at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CAMEROON–NIGERIA MIXED COMMISSION

Members of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, including its chairman, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa; Amadou Ali, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals of Cameroon; and Bola Ajibola, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria, asked the media for support in the peaceful settlement of the border dispute between the two countries.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

The United Nations $35-million emergency humanitarian appeal for Haiti, which was launched today, aims to meet the immediate needs of the population affected by the political crisis and establish the basis for recovery, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON FILM ‘THE INTERPRETER’

Briefing correspondents this morning on the film “The Interpreter”, Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack said he was “terribly excited” to be doing a feature film at the United Nations, a first in the Organization’s history.

                                                            8 March 2004

PRESS BRIEFING ON WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS

PRESS BRIEFING BY UN LEGAL COUNSEL

The past 10 years had been a remarkable time in the field of international law and in the Organization’s history, the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, Hans Corell, told correspondents at a Headquarters wrap-up press briefing today.

PRESS BRIEFING BY ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

The World Health Organization (WHO) initiative, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), aimed at treating 3 million people by the year 2005 with antiretroviral drugs -- the “3 by 5 initiative”-- was one of the most important initiatives emerging from the United Nations system in the life of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing today.

PRESS BRIEFING ON 2003 NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD

While most drug-related crime at the community level was nonviolent and petty, illicit drugs had created dangerous “no-go” zones in many localities, according to Vincent McClean, New York representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, who briefed correspondents at Headquarters Tuesday on the 2003 annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).