Press briefing by women’s anti-discrimination committee

 

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women had conducted its first inquiry into the murders and disappearances of more than 320 women in the Ciudad Juarez area of Chihuahua State, Mexico, that had been occurring since 1993, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GEORGIA

The Security Council should not become an exclusive club of privileged nations -- its decisions should be transparent and clear to the international community, Georgia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Revaz Adamia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

Press Briefing ON ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE ON IRAQ

 

With Iraq’s first free elections in nearly half a century just days away, the head of the United Nations Political Affairs office denounced the ongoing threats of violence and intimidation targeting voters and election workers as unjustifiable and “just plain wrong”, and encouraged all Iraqis to exercise their democratic rights so that political transition could finally begin in their war-torn country.

PRESS BRIEFING ON TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT

One month after the biggest earthquake in 40 years had affected 12 countries thousands of miles of ocean apart, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland said today at Headquarters that the humanitarian response had been “remarkably, perhaps singularly, effective, swift and muscular”.

PRESS BRIEFING LAUNCHING REPORT ‘WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION AND PROSPECTS’

press briefing by chairman of Security Council counter-terrorism committee

Press conference by Côte d’Ivoire

 

Reacting to the announcement on “Radio France Internationale” that France had introduced a draft resolution in the Security Council with a view to “toughening” the arms embargo imposed on his country, Cote d’Ivoire’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Philippe Djangone-Bi, said his country could not remain indifferent.

press conference by presidency of European Union

Multilateralism was a major priority of the European Union, which would strive to be an effective and positive partner for United Nations agencies, Jean-Marc Hoscheit, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

Press BRIEFING ON TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT

 

The devastation along the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, was “truly staggering”, Kevin M. Kennedy, Director of the Coordination and Response Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told correspondents this afternoon as he provided an update on tsunami-related activities.

Press conference by Secretary-general’s special envoy for hiv/aids in africa