"My goal is to get Kosovo away from the headlines, but at the same time to keep the international community interested in what is going on in there", Hans Haekkerup, recently appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
It was regrettable that the Security Council had failed to adopt a draft resolution that would have established a new United Nations presence in the occupied territories at its meeting on 18 December, the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Nasser Al-Kidwa, told journalists at a Headquarters press conference today
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Leonard She Okitundu, told correspondents at a Headquarters' press conference this afternoon that a consensus was emerging within his country against the aggression by Uganda and Rwanda.
Womens oppression in South Asia went beyond religion, class or caste, and was so ingrained through tradition and culture that only a determined political effort and high-level commitment would make a difference, correspondents were told this morning at a Headquarters press briefing, on the release of a report on the gender issue in that region.
How developing countries could attract more of the enormous existing flows of international capital was the focus of the Financing for Development process, Ambassador Jorgen Bojer of Denmark, Co-Chair of the United Nations Preparatory Committee for that process, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The number of countries ratifying the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court had tripled to 24 in a few months, the Chairman of the Courts Preparatory Commission told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon, as the Commission concluded a two-week session.
Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), this afternoon appealed for increased international assistance to enable the agency to continue its operations, noting that some $500 million had been lost to the Palestinian economy over the last two months.
To mark the World AIDS Day celebrated today, Netaid.org this week launched a new programme targeting HIV/AIDS in four countries, David Morrison, President of Netaid.org Foundation told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
