At a press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Albania to the United Nations, Hashim Thaci told correspondents at Headquarters this morning that the division of the northern city of Mitrowica implied that a partition of Kosovo was taking place contrary to Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).
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
