RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ON OIL-FOR-FOOD INQUIRY

BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S CHEF DE CABINET

Mark Malloch Brown:  I want to remind you all that we have visitors here today, so show your manners.  Who would like to start?

PRESS BRIEFING ON HAITI

 

Last Sunday’s events in Haiti were not a sign of any upsurge of violence but the result of a decision of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to liberate police stations that had been occupied by armed groups affiliated with the former military, Juan Gabriel Valdes, Head of the Mission and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

The Secretary-General: Let me first wish our Iranian and Kurdish friends a

very Happy New Year -- Nowrooz Mubarak.

PRESS BRIEFING ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT ‘IN LARGER FREEDOM’

Secretary-General Kofi Annan is set to present to the world’s nations, a crucial report that will urge political leaders to act boldly -- and together -- in 2005, to make people everywhere more secure, more prosperous and better able to enjoy their fundamental human rights, correspondents were told today at two Headquarters press briefings.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR BURUNDI

“Without sounding overly positive ... Burundi is well on track in its very long ongoing peace process”, Carolyn McAskie, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Burundi, told correspondents this afternoon at Headquarters.

Press briefing by Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen

 

Following his meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Terje Roed-Larsen told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the Secretary-General expected the full withdrawal of all Syrian troops, including the intelligence apparatus and military assets, to take place before the Lebanese parliamentary elections.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

 

Price Waterhouse Coopers’ Global Advisory chief today joined United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland to announce that the accounting giant would help the world body monitor nearly $1 billion to victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and set up a Web site to allow people to track how the money is spent.

Press conference on commission for africa report

 

The Commission for Africa Report, which was launched today in New York, London and Addis Ababa, calls Africa’s poverty “the greatest tragedy of our time” and says the developed world has a “moral duty” to assist the continent.

PRESS BRIEFING ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES SEMINAR

 

While the United States was taking an admirable direction in seeking to promote democracy, it must be remembered that the roots of democracy were much longer than the present Bush administration’s policy, Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY WOMEN’S COMMISSION INDIGENOUS PARTICIPANTS

About 60 indigenous participants of the ongoing “Beijing+10” review by the Commission on the Status of Women were calling for indigenous women’s rights to be recognized globally, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this morning.