PRESS CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

 

If more people were aware of the very serious nuclear risk, they would not tolerate what was going on right now in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, former United States Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara, said today at a Headquarters briefing just days before the Treaty review’s conclusion.

PRESS BRIEFING BY HEAD OF UN INVESTIGATION INTO ASSASSINATION

OF FORMER LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE

 

Fun, collaborative, healthy and relatively inexpensive, sport was also an immensely powerful tool for social development and the development of values, be it in wealthy nations, or impoverished or conflict countries, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF LEGAL AFFAIRS TO LAUNCH BOOKLET

 

ON TREATIES RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY BY MAYORS FOR PEACE,

PARLIAMENTARY NETWORK FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CANADA NATIVE WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION

The Native Women’s Association of Canada announced today at a Headquarters press conference that the Canadian Government would provide $5 million over five years to support its “Sisters in Spirit” initiative, aimed at focusing attention on violence against aboriginal women across Canada.

PRESS BRIEFING BY MOROCCO ON WESTERN SAHARA

Speaking to correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning, a group of former Moroccan prisoners of war, veterans of a conflict in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, appealed to the international community to demand the release of 408 of their fellow detainees.

Press conference by PARTNERSHIP FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ ENVIRONMENT

The first non-governmental organization Internet portal for indigenous peoples worldwide would be launched in Conference Room 4, United Nations Headquarters, at 6 p.m. on 26 May, Goodluck Diigbo, President of the Partnership for Indigenous Peoples’ Environment (PIPE), said this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY WANGARI MAATHAI, 2004 NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE

While there had been much talk over the years about forests in general, the fact was that very little was taking place on the ground, Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON TREATY OF NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Briefing correspondents today on the consensus adoption last night of an agenda for the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the President of the Conference said he failed to see how that “tiny first step” could be seen as having such momentous importance.