Everyone was talking about the use of flexible economic instruments in environmental policy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer said today at a Headquarters press briefing.
The Third United Nations Global Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) will be held in Vienna from 19 to 30 July 1999, the Director of the Office of Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations Office at Vienna, Nandasiri Jasentuliyana Duliyana, told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, opened the noon briefing by saying welcome to the Boston University School of Journalism students in attendance.
"Roll Back Malaria", a new campaign designed by the World Health Organization (WHO), was officially launched today at a Headquarters press conference. The campaign is being undertaken in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by welcoming the Palestinian journalists who were in the room, participating in a Department of Public Information (DPI) training programme. He then said today's guest at the noon briefing would be Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Nitin Desai.
The Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Nitin Desai, updated correspondents on the outcome of last week's meeting of the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), at a Headquarters briefing today.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by announcing that the Security Council would meet at 3:30 p.m. to discuss its programme of work for November, followed by informal consultations on Iraq. A draft resolution on that subject was being circulated.
The permanent representatives of several Central American countries appealed today for the international community to help their governments deal with the terrible damage caused by hurricane Mitch.
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's noon briefing by saying today's guest at the briefing would be the Under-Secretary-General for Management, Joseph Connor, who would elaborate on the subject of "a check he had received". (Mr. Connor's briefing has been issued separately.)
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Joseph Connor, Under- Secretary-General for Management, told correspondents that the United States had today paid $197 million to the United Nations in assessment payments.
