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.

**Guest at Noon

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE TO MARK FIRST YEAR OF ‘GLOBAL COMPACT’

The United Nations-led initiative known as "The Global Compact" was really a call on businesses to be global corporate citizens.  That meant going beyond the financial bottom line to embrace the social agenda, George Kell, Senior Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, said today at a Headquarters press briefing to mark the year since the launch of the programme.  

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

On 1 September 2001 the Government of Nigeria will begin a process of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS -- which initially will be on a larger scale than anywhere else on the African continent, Stephen Lewis, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa told correspondents yesterday.

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.

**Security Council

Today being the first of the month, the rotating presidency of the Security Council changes hands.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOUNDER OF SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH PROGRAMME

South Africa was a beautiful country, but it had a lot of wounded children, Jackey Maarohanye, Soweto youth programme director, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

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.

**International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE BY G-77 CHAIRMAN

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF COLOMBIA

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.

      Security Council

The Security Council met this morning in closed consultations to consider its draft programme of work for the month of August.

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