DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Marie Okabe, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.  We will do this briefing in three parts.

**Guests at Noon

press conference on ‘world fit for children + 5’; latest reports

by United Nations Secretary-General, unicef

 

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Marie Okabe, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.

**Press Conferences Today

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT MISSION OF GREECE, UNICEF

ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS CHILDREN

 

PRESS CONFERENCE on global sport fund of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Qatar is increasing its contribution to the Global Sport Fund of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to $10 million, Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of UNODC, announced today at a Headquarters news conference.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICEs OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

And the spokesperson for the General Assembly president

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS

AND EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR ON CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

 

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CAPITAL MASTER PLAN

 

The groundbreaking for the construction of the temporary North Lawn building under the Capital Master Plan of the United Nations complex would begin in June 2008, Michael Adlerstein, Executive Director of the project, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.