The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Shirley Brownell, spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly and Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Briefing by Spokeswoman for President of General Assembly
General Assembly Begins General Debate
Colombia would not accept any type of intervention in the conflict between the Government and rebels opposing it, President Andres Pastrana Arango said at a Headquarters press conference Monday afternoon. The solution had to be a political one reached through dialogue and agreement.
At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa said his country would pursue with others the need to restructure the United Nations.
Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference that the "quite extraordinary" spread of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa risks wiping out the gains made in children's health in the last two decades.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Shirley Brownell, spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly and Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Briefing by Spokeswoman
**General Debate Continues
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Shirley Brownell, spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly, and Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Briefing by Spokeswoman for President of General Assembly
Canada believed there must be a fully mandated United Nations peacekeeping mission to support reconciliation in Sierra Leone, Lloyd Axworthy, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. Regrettably, efforts to achieve that aim had not been successful so far.
