PRESS BRIEFING ON REPORT OF OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

Presenting the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair told correspondents that the report showed the far-reaching impact of internal oversight on accountability, efficiency and quality of management in the United Nations over the past 12 months.

PRESS BRIEFING ON ASSESSMENT OF IRAQ’S NEEDS

United Nations officials involved in efforts to meet the needs of the Iraqi people briefed correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.  They reviewed the work on Iraq’s Need Assessment, jointly carried out by the United Nations Development Group and the World Bank Group.

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SECOND COMMITTEE

Development must be brought back to the centre of the United Nations agenda, so as to combat the “soft terror” issues of hunger, disease and environmental degradation while winning back the Organization’s relevance for the world’s societies, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Chairman of the General Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Financial), said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ADVISER ON AFRICA

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PROSECUTOR-GENERAL OF RWANDA

Failing to bring to justice the hundreds of Rwandan genocide leaders who remained at large would be a failure not only of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), but of the United Nations in general, Gerald Gahima, Prosecutor-General of Rwanda, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

At a Headquarters press conference today, Jarmo Sareva, Deputy Permanent Representative of Finland and Chairman of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), briefed correspondents on the Committee’s work for the General Assembly’s fifty-eighth session.

PRESS BRIEFING ON UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND REPORT

Empowering girls was one of the most cost-effective and efficient ways to fight poverty, stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, bring about greater prosperity and further the global development agenda, correspondents were told this morning during the launch of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on The State of World Population 2003.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

Development, institutional reform and peace and security were the priorities moved for the General Assembly during its fifty-eighth session addressed in the context of the Millennium Development Goals, the Assembly’s President, Julian R. Hunte, told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Ambassador John Negroponte of the United States, President of the Security Council for the month of October, briefed correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today on the Council’s preliminary calendar for the month.

He highlighted a projected meeting on 29 October to mark the third anniversary of the Council’s adoption of a resolution on “Women, Peace and Security”.

PRESS BRIEFING ON 2003 HUMAN SETTLEMENTS REPORT

At least 1 billion people lived in slums, with the highest percentage of them found in Asia, Africa and Latin America, according to a new report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) entitled, “The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003”, to be issued on World Habitat Day, 6 October.