At a Headquarters press conference this morning, Dr. George Alleyne, the candidate nominated by Barbados for the position of Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told reporters that if elected he could make the organization more effective and more relevant in addressing regional problems.
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, United Nations Under- Secretary-General for Management Joseph Connor told reporters that lack of payments by Member States had put the Organization "on the financial brink, lacking both stability and liquidity".
At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Ivan Antonovich, told reporters that the Union between his country and the Russian Federation was not a threat, but an important part of the overall process of European integration.
At a Headquarters press conference this morning, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone called on the Security Council to provide concrete support for the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore his democratically elected Government to power.
[Incorporates briefing by Spokesman for General Assembly President]
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, informed correspondents at the start of today's briefing that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, who was briefing the Security Council, had been invited to talk to them afterwards.
