PRESS CONFERENCE BY ANGOLA SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN

The most important issue in his region and the world was the escalation between India and Pakistan and eyeball-to-eyeball contact between the two forces making that situation "extremely grave", President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.  

PRESS CONFERENCE BY EUROPEAN UNION

The fact that the United States had so strongly engaged with the United Nations on the problem of Iraq would significantly affect the outlook of European partners on the issue, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF FRANCE

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the Foreign Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin, outlined his country's initiative for the return of United Nations inspectors to Iraq according to a definite timetable and added that, if inspectors were refused, the Security Council should take measures without excluding any option. 

PRESS BRIEFING ON DPI/NGO CONFERENCE

At a press briefing this afternoon, Under Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs Jayantha Dhanapala stated that there would be a spiraling upward of arms expenditures around the world this year.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ADMISSION OF SWITZERLAND TO UNITED NATIONS

Speaking at a Headquarters press conference today on the occasion of Switzerland's admission to the United Nations, Kaspar Villiger, President of the Swiss Confederation, and Joseph Deiss, Minister of Foreign Affairs, stressed the continued importance of neutrality for the Swiss, but pointed out that membership in the United Nations reinforced another Swiss value, that of solidarity.

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF 57^TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS SECURITY AND SAFETY SERVICE

PRESS BRIEFING ON DPI/NGO CONFERENCE

PRESS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

"We are now working the vision of a permanent International Criminal Court into a tangible reality", the President of the Court's governing body told correspondents, pointing out that the Court would start functioning in March 2003.