PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE

Briefing correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon on the status of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, Ambassador Camilo Reyes (Colombia), President of the Conference, said "there are good reasons to be optimistic -- we have a very good chance of arriving at a final document for the programme of action".

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN BOB BARR

The latest draft final document of the United Nations Conference on Small Arms, distributed this morning, did not provide the basis for a consensus as far as the United States was concerned, a Member of the United States Congress told a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS BY FRENCH MINISTER

France and Switzerland are promoting the idea of a mechanism that would enable small arms and light weapons to be traced, the Minister-Delegate for Cooperation and Francophonie of France, Charles Josselin, told a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE LAUNCHING UNITED NATIONS WORLD ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY

The world economy is experiencing a significant decline in global output and trade which threatens to continue into the second half of this year, according to the United Nations World Economic and Social Survey 2001, being released simultaneously in New York and Geneva on Friday, 13 July.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS AND CHILDREN

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS SURVEY

The first edition of the Small Arms Survey entitled Profiling the Problem –- the first authoritative global survey of small arms issues -– was launched at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH UNDP 2001 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

Advanced technology -- in the biological, information and communications fields -- had a tremendous potential to make a difference in the lives of poor people, Eimi Watanabe, Director of the Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon to launch the 2001 Human Development Report (HDR).

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS BY HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS BY US CONGRESSMAN

The involvement of the United Nations in the domestic firearms policies of other nations, including the United States, would not be viewed with favour by the United States Congress, Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

UNITED STATES BRIEFING ON SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE