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’re going to start with a statement attributable to the Spokesman on Iran.

**Iran

Press conference by president of sixtieth General Assembly

 

Stressing that the world community was currently “facing a test of multilateralism”, newly elected General Assembly President Jan Eliasson told correspondents today that the United Nations must accept and live up to the highly intertwined challenges of development, security and human rights.

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 in Paris

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.

**Statement Attributable to the Spokesman on United States Institute for Peace Task Force Report

We’re going to start with a statement regarding the release today in Washington of the Mitchell/Gingrich report:

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.

I have two statements to start off with, the first one on Lebanon.

**Statement attributable to the Spokesman on the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC)

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.

**Security Council – Middle East

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ‘COMMUNITY COMMONS – LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS’

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

Following is a near-verbatim transcript of an announcement by Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and today’s noon briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General.

Announcement by Mark Malloch Brown

Good morning.

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 will start with a couple of statements, the first on Lebanon.

**Statement Attributable to the Spokesman on Lebanon

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

 

The first-ever informal interactive hearings of the General Assembly with representatives of civil society, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector, scheduled for 23 and 24 June, represented a new stage in dialogue between Member States and those representatives, Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.