PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL CONNOR ON LEBANON VIDEOTAPES

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE BY G-77 CHAIRMAN

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF COLOMBIA

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOUNDER OF SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH PROGRAMME

South Africa was a beautiful country, but it had a lot of wounded children, Jackey Maarohanye, Soweto youth programme director, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE TO MARK FIRST YEAR OF ‘GLOBAL COMPACT’

The United Nations-led initiative known as "The Global Compact" was really a call on businesses to be global corporate citizens.  That meant going beyond the financial bottom line to embrace the social agenda, George Kell, Senior Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, said today at a Headquarters press briefing to mark the year since the launch of the programme.  

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

On 1 September 2001 the Government of Nigeria will begin a process of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS -- which initially will be on a larger scale than anywhere else on the African continent, Stephen Lewis, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa told correspondents yesterday.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CO-CHAIRMAN OF 'EMINENT PERSONS'

Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, Co-Chairman of the Eminent Persons' Group on Small Arms, this afternoon urged the appointment by the Secretary-General of a coordinator to ensure a follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Small Arms and the speedy implementation of its programme of action.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTERNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK ON SMALL ARMS

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES ON SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FUND FOR PEACE

The Fund for Peace, a United States-based non-profit organization, this afternoon called on the United Nations Small Arms Conference to adopt a legally binding regime that will regulate arms brokering operations in a uniform and coordinated manner.