PRESS BRIEFING ON PREPARATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

The outcome of the World Summit for Sustainable Development would be a major statement of purpose rather than a laundry list of small programmes to be implemented, two officials involved in preparations for the Summit stated this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD MANDALA MONUMENT

The World Mandala Monument to be unveiled at United Nations Headquarters today was a symbol of the United Nations in that, for the first time ever and symbolically speaking, the boundaries between the 188 Member States had been dissolved, the artist Neil Tetkowsky told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

PRESS BRIEFING BY ACTING SPECIAL ADVISER ON COLOMBIA

The armed actors in Colombia had to stop murdering, kidnapping, displacing and massacring the Colombian people, James LeMoyne, Acting Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Colombia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon. 

NGO PRESS CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING

The Monterrey Consensus must put people before profits, Hellen Wangusa of African Women's Economic Policy Network, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations. 

PRESS BRIEFING ON NYAIGONGO ERUPTION BY OFFICE

FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ON AFGHANISTAN

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA

Having just assumed the Chairmanship of the "Group of 77" developing nations and China, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, at a Headquarters press conference this morning said that he was beginning the new year with a great deal of faith, strength and optimism.  He was pleased to have received the great responsibility of the chairmanship from Iran at the ceremony this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION

There was more bad news in the United Nations' analysis of world economic developments -- world economic growth was the lowest in a decade and the prospects for 2002 were no better, the Director of the Policy Analysis Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF Counter-terrorism cOMMITTEE

The Counter-Terrorism Committee had gotten an "extremely good" response to its requirement that national reports be submitted by a 27 December 2001 deadline, Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock of the United Kingdom, Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.