The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Susan Markham, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
Good afternoon.
Four to five per cent global growth estimates for the current year were excessively optimistic, as was the belief that the problems which caused the Asian financial crisis had been eliminated, Jan Kregel, High-Level Expert in International Finance, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.
At a Headquarters press conference today, the Chargé d'affaires of the Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vladislav Jovanovic, presented a booklet compiled by his Foreign Ministry offering evidence that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had used depleted uranium in its 1999 bombing campaign against his country.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of todays noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
**Secretary-General Welcomes China Trade Bill
While industrialized countries were growing at less than 1 per cent per year, the 4 per cent annual growth rate of the developing countries would double their energy consumption in 15 years and make them major players, Jose Goldemberg, Chairman of the World Energy Assessment (WEA), said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of todays noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Susan Markham, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
Good afternoon.
**Staff March
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of todays noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Susan Markham, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
