PRESS BRIEFING ON CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT

 

The battle to ensure the well-being of children exposed to armed conflict had now reached a “turning point”, said to the United Nations Special envoy on the issue today, as he launched a planned monitoring and reporting mechanism to track violations of children's rights, identify offending parties and weigh accountability.

PRESS BRIEFING ON PEACE AND COOPERATION AWARD 2005

 

For 20 years now, the Peace and Cooperation Award competition had been raising awareness concerning international issues and the outcome of important United Nations conferences in schools around the world, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UN-HABITAT

 

Africa on its own could not break out of the vicious cycle in which history had placed it, Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ROUND TABLES

 

Achieving the core goals identified during the 1995 World Summit for Social Development –- namely, poverty eradication, full employment, and social integration –- remained a communal responsibility, reiterated the government ministers who chaired three round-table discussions organized this morning in conjunction with the Commission on Social Development’s 10-year review of the conference.

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 Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, and Djibril Diallo, Spokesman for the General Assembly President.

Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Good afternoon.

**Guest at Noon

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 Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, and Djibril Diallo, Spokesman for the General Assembly President.

Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Good afternoon.

**Guest at Noon

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ENVOYFORKOREANPENINSULA

 

The announcement by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Thursday that it possessed nuclear weapons and that it would refuse to return to disarmament talks should be regarded not as the end of the negotiating process, but as an “unhappy twist in the road”, Maurice Strong, the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Korean Peninsula, told correspondents this afternoon.

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 the Secretary-General

Good afternoon,

**Guest at Noon

PRESS BRIEFING BY INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION

 

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

 

Zambia was a country “on the move against the pandemic”, Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.