PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ADVISOR

ON GLOBAL COMPACT AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

The Secretary-General will deliver a major keynote address to the World Economic Forum this Sunday, providing world political and business leaders with an update on the Global Compact, his Special Advisor, John Ruggie, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY LIBERIA

Liberia's relationship with the Sierra Leonean rebel movement, the Revolutionary United Force (RUF), was one that went back to his own country's civil war, and one that was both documented and known, Monie Captan, Foreign Minister of Liberia, told correspondents at a headquarters press conference today.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR, A.I.

Over the past two years, a combination of drought, snow, cold and ice had created the most severe weather conditions in Mongolia in 60 years, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, a.i., Carolyn McAskie, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN CHILDREN’S FUND

"When UNICEF comes into a village, hope comes into a village", Mia Farrow, award-winning actress and Special Representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference reporting on the launch last Saturday of a countrywide polio vaccination campaign in Nigeria.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS

"Africa is bleeding from the humanitarian toll inflicted by small arms", a representative of Nigeria to the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects told correspondents this afternoon at a press conference organized by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and sponsored by the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF SOMALIA

      Somali Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galayr said today that his country would like a United Nations peace-building mission to help in the demobilization process of militia groups, because it did not have the necessary resources to tackle the problem alone.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOMALIA

After nearly 10 years of chaos and fragmentation, progress had been made in Somalia, David Stephen, Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations office for Somalia, told correspondents this afternoon during a briefing at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN CHILDREN’S FUND

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNHCR

At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Ruud Lubbers, the newly appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), met with correspondents to discuss his briefing of the Security Council on the situation in Guinea. 

WFP MAP THAT ILLUSTRATES GEOGRAPHY OF UNDERNOURISHMENT LAUNCHED TODAY

A new map, that uses colour to illustrate relative levels of undernourishment throughout the world, was launched by World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Catherine Bertini, at a Headquarters press conference this morning.  The map is called the "World Hunger Map".