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. 

PRESS BRIEFING ON 2005 WORLD ECONOMY

 

Global economic growth was slowing down from a rate of slightly over 4 per cent to just over 3 per cent a year, according to an updated United Nations analysis of the world economy, José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

Press conference by EUROPEAN UNION ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING

 

Security Council members Ellen Margrethe Løj (Denmark), Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee; César Mayoral (Argentina), Chair of the Committee concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban; and Mihnea Ioan Motoc (Romania), Chair of the Committee to prevent access of non-State actors to Weapons of Mass Destruction, this morning updated correspondents on their Committees’ work during a press conference at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NEW UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES

 

Introducing the new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), António Guterres, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told correspondents today that Mr. Guterres had been in the job for less than two weeks, but he had wasted no time in getting started in the field where the problems were.