press conference by executive director of United Nations office on drugs, crime

Antonio María Costa, Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said at Headquarters this afternoon that Afghanistan was dangerously close to being destroyed by opium, according to the 2006 Opium Survey.

press conference by president of poland

 

President Lech Kaczyński of Poland said this afternoon that he hoped to hold bilateral meetings with the leaders of several countries during his time at United Nations Headquarters to discuss his country’s peacekeeping efforts, among other matters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR LEAST DEVELOPED,

LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES

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

AND SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF FRANCE

 

President Jacques Chirac of France highlighted today the importance of collective action as the best response to conflict and the distortions caused by globalization.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF SUDAN

 

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir of the Sudan said his Government “categorically and totally” rejected the transformation of the African Union force in Darfur into a United Nations peacekeeping operation.

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 Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY president of cyprus

 

President Tassos Papadopoulos of Cyprus assured Secretary-General Kofi Annan today of his Government’s commitment to the agreement with Turkey concerning the Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots in the north of the divided island nation.