PRESS BRIEFING BY SPOKESMAN FOR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANISTAN

The emergence of a formula to create a broad-based transitional administration in Afghanistan would be the measure of success for next week's intra-Afghan talks in Bonn, Germany, the Spokesman for Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Envoy for Afghanistan, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR ON AFGHANISTAN

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPUTY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

A Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for $2.5 billion to sustain more than

33 million people -- many suffering from war and conflict -- will be launched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at 11 a.m. on Monday 26 November at Headquarters, it was announced at a press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

FOR INFORMATION/COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

PRESS BRIEFING ON EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Efforts were needed to strengthen the capacity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to combat the exploitation of its vast natural resources, according to the Chairman of the panel established by the Security Council to this issue.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ADMINISTRATOR

In the midst of ongoing efforts in the political and humanitarian areas in Afghanistan, there was a new and equally vital challenge -– to structure a recovery and reconstruction programme that would support those efforts, Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNCTAD

The growth of e-commerce will continue despite the strong economic pessimism generated by the dot-com crash, the 11 September terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan, Jean Gurunlian of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF GROUP OF 77

The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change could be ratified by enough countries to make it enter into force next year, Ambassador Bagher Asadi, Iran, Chairman of the "Group of 77" developing countries (G-77) said this morning, as he briefed correspondents at Headquarters on the outcome of the Marrakech Conference on that Protocol, as well as the upcoming G-77 Ministerial Meeting.