A three-month ceasefire in southern Sudan was not long enough to end the crisis in that area, the Executive Director of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Carol Bellamy, said this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
(Incorporates briefing by spokesman for General Assembly President.)
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by welcoming a group of guest journalists from developing countries, visiting under the sponsorship of the United States Information Agency.
Juan Carlos Brandt, Senior Associate Spokesman for the Secretary- General, started today's noon briefing by reporting that the Special Conference on Sierra Leone had begun this morning with the Secretary-General's opening statement, the text of which was available in room S-378.
Juan Carlos Brandt, Senior Associate Spokesman for the Secretary- General, opened today's noon briefing by reading out the following statement on Guinea-Bissau, attributable to the Spokesman:
While equal rights for women and men was one of the pillars on which the United Nations was founded, those rights were far from being universally observed, Angela King, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
Juan Carlos Brandt, Senior Associate Spokesman for the Secretary- General, told correspondents at today's noon briefing that the Security Council met in formal consultations this morning to discuss its work programme for the month of August. Under other matters, it briefly reviewed the status of its response to the Secretary-General's report on Africa.
Juan Carlos Brandt, Senior Associate Spokesman for the Secretary- General, began today's noon briefing by reading a statement that would be available at his office and issued as a press release.
Judge Laity Kama, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the Tribunal would, in the very near future, hand down its first decision since its inception in 1994.
