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 Stéphane Dujarric, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon. 

**Statement Attributable to Spokesman for Secretary-General

I will start off with a statement regarding the elections that took place yesterday in the United Kingdom:

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 Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.

I am sorry; we’re beginning this a little late today.

**SG in Moscow

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 Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.

I understand we have a group of visitors from Greece.  Welcome to the noon briefing, and I hope you’re enjoying your stay in New York and at the UN Headquarters.

**SG in Geneva

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE RISK INVESTOR SUMMIT

 

Responding to the urgent need to address climate change, leading global investors at the 2005 Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk today committed to investing $1 billion of capital in the next year in companies with clean technologies, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON TREATY ON NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

“The United States could not preach temperance from a barstool”, United States Congressman Ed Markey said yesterday at a Headquarters press conference, referring to the United States’ interest in developing a nuclear “bunker-buster” weapon while seeking to suppress the nuclear threat elsewhere in Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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 Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.

**Background Briefing

Immediately following this briefing, two senior UN officials will be here to give you a background briefing on the Capital Master Plan.  That report, as you will recall, was issued yesterday as a document.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING

There were 1.6 billion inadequately housed people across the world and an estimated 100 million who were completely homeless, comprising 20 to 40 million in the urban areas and about 60 million in the rural areas, Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON FORCED LABOUR REPORT

 

According to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report, entitled “A Global Alliance against Forced Labour”, at least 12.3 million people -- one out of every 500 people -- were trapped in forced labour around the world.

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 Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.

**NPT Review Conference

After intensive negotiations, the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) adopted its agenda last night.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON TREATY OF NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Briefing correspondents today on the consensus adoption last night of an agenda for the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the President of the Conference said he failed to see how that “tiny first step” could be seen as having such momentous importance.