[Incorporates briefing by UNICEF Representative for Sierra Leone]
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by noting that there was no Security Council meeting today. All the action was in the General Assembly, he said, and Alex Taukatch, spokesman for the President of the General Assembly, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine), would provide a report on that.
At a Headquarters press conference this morning, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said he was deeply concerned about a British nurse who had been sentenced to 500 lashes for murder in Saudi Arabia earlier today.
At a Headquarters press briefing this morning, Makha Sarr, Director of the Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and Least Developed Countries, introduced the 1997 Report on the Least Developed Countries, a publication of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by telling correspondents that the Secretary-General's appointments schedule included five Presidents or Prime Ministers, and a dozen Ministers, mostly of Foreign Affairs.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, told correspondents at the start of today's press briefing that the Security Council ministerial meeting was wrapping up at about that same time. The Secretary-General had spoken second in the debate.
