While “much-needed” progress had been made during the just-concluded ten-day negotiating session in Bangkok towards an agreement at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team today said there was still a disconnect between what national leaders said in summit meetings and what their negotiators offered.
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The Foreign Minister of Honduras, speaking at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, called on the international community to hold firm in its non-acceptance of the authorities installed by the 28 June coup in her country if there was no resolution of the situation by a 15 October deadline.
At a Headquarters press conference today, the United Nations Agency dealing with human settlements launched a global report that backed a unified approach to urban planning -- one that recognized key factors shaping twenty-first century cities, especially the demographic, environmental, economic and socio-spatial challenges -- by all stakeholders involved in the process of accommodating the lives of millions of people in rapidly growing cities around the world.
The two-hour season premiere episode of the award-winning television show Ugly Betty highlights the grassroots campaign Nothing But Nets, which saves lives through the distribution of malaria nets in Africa, according to cast members and producers who held a press conference at Headquarters today. The episode, titled “The Butterfly Effect”, airs at 8 p.m. on 16 October.
Some 650 million of the world’s 1 billion poorest people depended totally on animals for their livelihoods, Mike Baker, Director-General of The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), said at Headquarters today.
An extensive investigation, launched Monday, into charges of fraudulent voting in Afghanistan’s recent elections was moving forward with the aim of delivering results as soon as possible, Edmond Mullet, United Nations Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping said today at a Headquarters press conference.
Rescue efforts were winding down and emergency relief getting into full gear in response to the successive natural disasters that recently hit Asia and the Pacific, John Holmes, Emergency Relief Coordinator, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.
General Assembly President Ali Abdussalam Treki of Libya, in his first press conference since the close of the Assembly’s annual general debate earlier this week, said this year’s gathering, had drawn more than 100 world leaders who had demonstrated their sustained interest in the United Nations and a wide array of crucial issues ‑‑ from climate change to the financial crisis to human rights.
During the month of October, the Security Council would hold two open debates in which non-Council Member States could participate, respectively, on “women, peace and security” and on the situation in the Middle East, Council President Le Luong Minh, the Permanent Representative of Viet Nam, said today.
Iran was open to continuing international dialogue, even at the summit level, on a range of issues, including security and economic matters, Manouchehr Mottaki, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran, said as he answered correspondents’ questions this morning.