Press Conference

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PRESS BRIEFING TO RELEASE UNFPA STATE OF WORLD POPULATION REPORT

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PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH WORLD ENERGY ASSESSMENT REPORT

While industrialized countries were growing at less than 1 per cent per year, the 4 per cent annual growth rate of the developing countries would double their energy consumption in 15 years and make them major players, Jose Goldemberg, Chairman of the World Energy Assessment (WEA), said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING TO LAUNCH UNCTAD'S 2000 REPORT

Four to five per cent global growth estimates for the current year were excessively optimistic, as was the belief that the problems which caused the Asian financial crisis had been eliminated, Jan Kregel, High-Level Expert in International Finance, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

At a Headquarters press conference today, the Chargé d'affaires of the Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vladislav Jovanovic, presented a booklet compiled by his Foreign Ministry offering evidence that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had used depleted uranium in its 1999 bombing campaign against his country.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES

At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Nicolas Bwakira, Director, New York Liaison Office, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told correspondents that the recent murder of an agency staff member and the abduction of another had occurred amid growing tensions in the country of Guinea.

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PRESS BRIEFINGE ON COLOMBIAN CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT FOR PEACE

The Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, Carol Bellamy, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that it was critical to engage young people in any peace-building process and she could think of no other country where young people were more involved in such a movement than Colombia.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE

The United States and its European allies were more effective in supporting United Nations peacekeeping operations when they worked together, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference yesterday afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY COMMONWEALTH

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF BENIN

The Fourth International Conference of New and Restored Democracies will be held in Cotonou, Benin, from 4 to 6 December this year, Antoine Kolawole Idji, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Benin, announced at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UN DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Despite a decline in its production of raw opium in 2000, Afghanistan remained by far the world's largest opium poppy producer, Pino Arlacchi, Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.