The following is a near verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
I will start with a statement attributable to the Spokesman. It is on East Timor.
**Statement by Spokesman
The most serious recent impact of war on humanitarian operations in the Sudan was the series of bombings on sites used by Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), Kevin Kennedy, Chief of the Emergency Liaison Branch of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The following is a near verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Security Council Consultations
The following is a near verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Statement Attributable to the Spokesman on Sudan
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Afghanistan
The following is a near verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Lebanon
The following is a near verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Statement Attributable to Spokesman on Democratic Republic of Congo
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Good afternoon. It's nice to be back. A special thank you to my Deputy Manoel and the skeleton team from my office who filled in so well while I was away.
There had been many positive developments in Kosovo, and Kosovars, in conjunction with international organizations, were working together for progress in the province, Hashim Thaci, the Albanian leader of the Democratic Party in Kosovo and a member of the Interim Administrative Council of Kosovo, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Good afternoon. Well, the critical mass in the room is due to the visiting journalists from Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Welcome to the United Nations.
