PRESS BRIEFING ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT ‘IN LARGER FREEDOM’

Secretary-General Kofi Annan is set to present to the world’s nations, a crucial report that will urge political leaders to act boldly -- and together -- in 2005, to make people everywhere more secure, more prosperous and better able to enjoy their fundamental human rights, correspondents were told today at two Headquarters press briefings.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

The Secretary-General: Let me first wish our Iranian and Kurdish friends a

very Happy New Year -- Nowrooz Mubarak.

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.

**Guest at Noon

PRESS BRIEFING ON HAITI

 

Last Sunday’s events in Haiti were not a sign of any upsurge of violence but the result of a decision of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to liberate police stations that had been occupied by armed groups affiliated with the former military, Juan Gabriel Valdes, Head of the Mission and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ON OIL-FOR-FOOD INQUIRY

BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S CHEF DE CABINET

Mark Malloch Brown:  I want to remind you all that we have visitors here today, so show your manners.  Who would like to start?

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.  I see we have some guests.  I understand you are members of the student government of San Joaquin Delta College, California.  Welcome to the briefing.

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.

**Lebanon

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.

**Secretary-General meets with NGOs on Darfur, Sudan

PRESS BRIEFING ON INDONESIAN EARTHQUAKE BY UN EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

While no reports had been received of a tsunami wave yet, there was deep concern among the already mentally scarred population, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, said at a press-conference arranged hours after a massive earthquake hit off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today.

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.