HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR INTERNAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

If all of his department's recommendations were implemented, the United Nations could save and recover $56 million, according to Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair.  Discussing his Office's eighth annual report at a press briefing this morning, he said it contained

PRESS CONFERENCE ON 5OTH ANNIVERSARY OF UN GUIDED TOURS

A key objective in marking the 50^th anniversary of the United Nations tours was galvanizing the valuable network of former guides and encouraging them to continue to serve as “ambassadors to the public”, said Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL

Although it was not yet known when the issue of Iraq would be taken up by the Security Council, Council members generally believed that the issue should be handled as soon as possible, Council President Zhang Yishan, Deputy Permanent Representative of China, told correspondents this afternoon at a briefing on the Council’s programme of work for November.

UNIFEM PRESS BRIEFING ON INDEPENDENT EXPERTS’ ASSESMENT ON WOMEN, WAR AND PEACE

PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR OF POPULATION DIVISION

The phenomenon of international migration would appear increasingly often and for a very long time on the United Nations agenda as a delicate and controversial issue with great demographic impact, Joseph Chamie, Director of the Population Division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT MISSION OF DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Pak Gil Yon, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations said this morning that the issue of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula arose from the massive stockpiling of such arms in the Republic of Korea and the threat they posed to his country as the United States pursued a hostile policy for world supremacy.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY RWANDA ON EXPLOITATION OF RESOURCES

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF PANEL ON EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL

RESOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SITUATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, welcomed the Security Council’s unanimous support for prioritizing the three key elements of justice, jobs and reform to make the country work.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

Speakers at a Headquarters press conference this morning praised Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), saying that it legitimized the role of women in peacemaking and that its faithful implementation could provide a solution to the problems faced by women in conflict situations.