PRESS CONFERENCE BY NGO REPRESENTATIVES ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ADVISER ON ASSISTANCE TO COLOMBIA

The Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on International Assistance to Colombia, Jan Egeland, in a briefing to correspondents at the United Nations this afternoon, said the peace talks in Colombia were in crisis, with new difficulties in the talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Government of Colombia.  

PRESS BRIEFING ON PREPARATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT FINANCING CONFERENCE

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANISTAN

Acknowledging the difficulties that lay ahead in Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for that country, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that "we will do our best and work first with all Afghans, then those who have an interest in Afghanistan, concerns and influence over the situation". 

PRESS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF POVERTY ERADICATION

Private-sector-based financial cooperatives were described as a key element in the pursuit of the Millennium Summit’s year 2015 goal of halving the number of people in the world who live in poverty, experts in poverty eradication said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

The terrorist attacks on 11 September in the United States will further slow a world economy already growing at its lowest rate in a decade and hamper long-term growth as well, according to a report released by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs at Headquarters this morning.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR,

MINE-ACTION SERVICE HEAD

Worst-case scenario figures for the refugee outflow implied that

5 to 6 million people would require food in Afghanistan through the winter, correspondents were told this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing by Caroline McAskie, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Martin Barber, head of the Mine-Action Service.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

Now that the hostilities had intensified, it was necessary to remind the world of the need to protect innocent civilians, to distinguish between them and combatants, and to secure the necessary conditions for delivering aid, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Kenzo Oshima told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

2001 REPORT ON WORLD SOCIAL SITUATION LAUNCHED

AT HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING

The developing world’s struggle to reduce poverty, avoid marginalization and overcome gaps in income distribution has generally been hindered by economic liberalization policies, correspondents were told at the launch of the 2001 Report on the World Social Situation held this morning at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNIFEM

Although women had been in the very vanguard of peace and reconciliation efforts, their role in peace-building had not been recognized, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

"Once peace finds its place, the positions held by women are reclaimed by men, leaving women marginalized and sidelined", she said.