PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNHCR

At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Ruud Lubbers, the newly appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), met with correspondents to discuss his briefing of the Security Council on the situation in Guinea. 

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcription of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Welcome to our guests, the visiting journalists, who are sponsored by Freedom Forum.

**Security Council

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcription of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Good afternoon.

**Depleted Uranium

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOMALIA

After nearly 10 years of chaos and fragmentation, progress had been made in Somalia, David Stephen, Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations office for Somalia, told correspondents this afternoon during a briefing at Headquarters.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Good Afternoon.  You should get comfortable.  Today we have a lot of stuff.  [Inaudible comment]  I didn't say a lot of interest.  I just said a lot stuff. 

**Kosovo

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF SOMALIA

      Somali Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galayr said today that his country would like a United Nations peace-building mission to help in the demobilization process of militia groups, because it did not have the necessary resources to tackle the problem alone.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

It’s nice to see my predecessor, Joe Sills, sitting in the back of the room.  A visiting guest today.

** Earthquake in El Salvador

We’ll start with the earthquake in El Salvador.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-general:

Good afternoon.  We’ll start, again today with reaction to the earthquake in El Salvador.

** Earthquake in El Salvador

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by

Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.

Thanks for waiting.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

** SG in Yaounde