PRESS CONFERENCEON WOMEN’S ROLE IN PEACE PROCESSES

 

There was a critical need to integrate women in conflict prevention and peacebuilding negotiations, speakers said at a United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) press conference, held at Headquarters today.

press conference by nigeria’s foreign minister

The African States would be willing to negotiate possible changes to their draft proposal on Security Council expansion with ministers of the Group of 4 (G-4), Nigerian Foreign Minister Oluyemi Adeniji said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON CENTRALAFRICANREPUBLIC

 

Stressing the need to prevent the Central African Republic from sliding back into conflict, United Nations Resident Coordinator Stan Nkwain said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the State must urgently resume its normal functioning in terms of providing security, so that the population could be convinced to resume farming and other economic activities.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION

 

The bonds of cooperation between members of Parliaments around the globe and the United Nations should be strengthened to help government officials tackle the problems -- from poverty to international trade to terrorism -- that are facing today’s world, several members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) said today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT SMALL ARMS MEETING

 

During Watergate, Deep Throat used to tell Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein to follow the money, but in today’s conflicts, one should follow the gun, the real weapons of mass destruction, the Chairman of next week’s Biennial Meeting of States on the illicit small arms trade, Pasi Patokallio (Finland), told correspondents today at a Headquarters’ press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

Press Briefing by UN COMPENSATION COMMISSION

 

After 12 years and 2.68 million claims processed, the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) had completed its work handling the claims of those who suffered damages during Iraq’s 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, Joe Sills, Spokesman for the Commission, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

Issues of Africa would comprise most of the Security Council’s business in July, the Council President for the month, Adamantios Th. Vassilakis (Greece), said today at a Headquarters press briefing. 

PRESS BRIEFING ON RWANDA TRIBUNAL

Activity in the trial chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was at an all-time high with an unprecedented number of trials in progress, Adama Dieng, Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY ECOSOC PRESIDENT

 

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) had demonstrated that it could build real coalitions for action on the economic and social front, and that was a very positive development, its current President, Munir Akram (Pakistan), told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.