In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


17 October 2008
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

press conference on international day for eradication of poverty


The human rights obligation to fight extreme poverty was not lessened by the current global financial crisis, Maria Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, United Nations Independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, said at Headquarters this morning.

3 October 2008
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 


Africa would retain the focus of the Security Council for the month of October, Zhang Yesui, Permanent Representative of China, which holds the body’s presidency for the month, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.