Press conference by president of sixtieth General Assembly

 

Stressing that the world community was currently “facing a test of multilateralism”, newly elected General Assembly President Jan Eliasson told correspondents today that the United Nations must accept and live up to the highly intertwined challenges of development, security and human rights.

Press Briefing on Millennium Development Goals report

 

While there had been a massive, unprecedented reduction in extreme poverty in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, facing a complex and critical situation, had not witnessed the same progress, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, José Antonio Ocampo, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON DEEPSEA BOTTOM TRAWLING

Deep sea bottom trawl fishing was a highly unregulated and extremely destructive practice that could be compared to chasing rabbits with a bulldozer, Lisa Speer, Senior Policy Analyst, National Resource Defence Council, told correspondents this morning during a Headquarters press conference.

Press conference on world youth orchestra

 

“Dialogue and Brotherhood among Diversity” would be the theme of a World Youth Orchestra (WYO) concert at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations tomorrow evening, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SEA TURTLE RESTORATION PROJECT

 

The oceans were in a deep crisis and one of the biggest threats to high-seas biodiversity was high-seas industrial longline fishing, Robert Ovetz, Coordinator, Save the Leatherback Campaign of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.

Press conference by General Assembly president

 

on September 2005 high-level meeting

 

Highlighting elements of the draft outcome document for the General Assembly’s high-level meeting in September, Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) said the draft document unequivocally reaffirmed the need to strengthen the United Nations and make it an effective tool to collectively meet the many challenges and threats facing the world today.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNAIDS, GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA

A small but encouraging number of countries were beginning to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, but the epidemic had continued to expand worldwide, Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing today.  (For opening remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, see Press Release SG/SM/9906.)

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

The Security Council would spend a considerable amount of time on Africa, making this “a very African month”, Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France) said this afternoon at a press conference to present the Council’s programme for the June French presidency.

PRESS BRIEFING ON HIV/AIDS BY UNFPA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

Today’s young generation, the largest in history, had not known a world without HIV/AIDS, Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said this morning at a Headquarters press briefing to launch “Our Voice, Our Future”, a report by young people on progress made on the General Assembly Special Session Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON Non-Proliferation Treaty

 

In the final hours of the month-long conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), its President, Sergio de Queiroz Duarte (Brazil) responded to correspondents’ questions regarding the outcome of that event.  Also present at the Headquarters press conference was Under-Secretary-General, Department of Disarmament Affairs, Abe Nobuyasu.