Press CONFERENCE BY HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON THREATS, CHALLENGES, CHANGE

Using the new report on United Nations reform as a starting point, Member States would now have to decide if they wanted a more effective organization, said Anand Panyarachun, Chair of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, this morning, at a Headquarters press conference on the Panel’s report, entitled “A More Secure World:  Our Shared Responsibility”.

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General

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

Good afternoon,

**High-level Panel

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

AND THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General and Djibril Diallo, Spokesman for the General Assembly President.

Spokesman for Secretary-General

Good afternoon,

**Statement Attributable to Spokesman for Secretary-General

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General

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

Good afternoon.

**Secretary-General’s Report on Afghanistan

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General

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

Good afternoon.

We’ll have a statement regarding President Karzai’s election in a few minutes.  It’s not quite ready.

**Security Council

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE

 

Teams of sharpshooters at the Hotel Ivoire, the crushed cranium of a young girl and the ripped abdomen of a pregnant women were among the images on an amateur videotape that Philippe Djangone-Bi, Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire, showed correspondents at Headquarters today as examples of “French repression” in his country and “the use of heavy weapons of war against peaceful demonstrators”.

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

AND SPOKESMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

Following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Djibril Diallo, Spokesman for the General Assembly President.

Spokesman for the Secretary-General

Good afternoon,

**Guest at Noon

Press conference on 2004 world hunger report

 

With more than 800 million people in the developing world still suffering from chronic hunger, progress to reach the 1996 World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people worldwide by 2015 had been far too slow, Florence Chenoweth, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing today.

Press conference on smallislands meeting by Secretary-General’s

 

high representative

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General

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

Good afternoon,

**Iraqi Elections

We have some unfinished business from yesterday.

I was asked about the Iraqi elections, and we’re still waiting for an update on that.  I hope to have it by the end of this briefing.