PRESS CONFERENCE BY ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA

 

With a mid-term assessment of global efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals just months away and with many of the world’s richest countries pledging to help Africa accelerate growth and make lasting gains against poverty, the head of the United Nations Economic Commission for that troubled continent today previewed an upcoming study on the impact of HIV/AIDS on key areas of governance and economic development.

Press BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SECURITY COUNCIL AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS COMMITTEE

Member States were now more aware of the need to cooperate with the Security Council Committee responsible for the implementation of sanctions against Al-Qaida, the Taliban and their associates –- that was an encouraging conclusion of the second report by the team of independent experts assisting that body, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL LOUISE FRECHETTE

PRESS BRIEFING BY INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION

 

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

 

Zambia was a country “on the move against the pandemic”, Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ENVOYFORKOREANPENINSULA

 

The announcement by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Thursday that it possessed nuclear weapons and that it would refuse to return to disarmament talks should be regarded not as the end of the negotiating process, but as an “unhappy twist in the road”, Maurice Strong, the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Korean Peninsula, told correspondents this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UN-HABITAT

 

Africa on its own could not break out of the vicious cycle in which history had placed it, Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ROUND TABLES

 

Achieving the core goals identified during the 1995 World Summit for Social Development –- namely, poverty eradication, full employment, and social integration –- remained a communal responsibility, reiterated the government ministers who chaired three round-table discussions organized this morning in conjunction with the Commission on Social Development’s 10-year review of the conference.

PRESS BRIEFING ON PEACE AND COOPERATION AWARD 2005

 

For 20 years now, the Peace and Cooperation Award competition had been raising awareness concerning international issues and the outcome of important United Nations conferences in schools around the world, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT

 

The battle to ensure the well-being of children exposed to armed conflict had now reached a “turning point”, said to the United Nations Special envoy on the issue today, as he launched a planned monitoring and reporting mechanism to track violations of children's rights, identify offending parties and weigh accountability.