Press conference by GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

The General Assembly today, meeting in plenary for the first time since 23 December 2004, was considering a draft resolution on the strengthening of emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) told correspondents today during a briefing at Headquarters.

Press briefing on Millennium Development Goals Report

(Summary of Press Briefing held on 13 January 2005,

embargoed until noon, Monday, 17 January)

Press conference on millennium Project report

 

At the outset of the press conference to introduce the Millennium Project’s report, entitled, “Investing in Development:  A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals”, Secretary-General Kofi Annan made introductory remarks, a transcript of which is contained in Press Release SG/SM/9678 of 17 January.

Press Briefing on tsunami relief effort by unicef executive director

Amid the tumult of the massive clean-up efforts under way in tsunami-hit areas throughout South Asia, some children are heading back to school, taking what the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today said was a crucial step in putting last month’s nightmare behind them.

Press briefing on tsunami relief effort

 

With teams of international aid workers and soldiers toiling side-by-side to deliver food and medical supplies and clear away rubble in tsunami-devastated villages across South Asia, the top United Nations emergency relief official today said that the really hard work was about to begin:  providing a life for millions of traumatized and homeless survivors now scattered across 12 countries. 

PRESS BRIEFING ON TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT

 

Yesterday’s ministerial meeting in Geneva on humanitarian assistance to tsunami-affected areas had been a singular success, a senior representative of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.

Press Briefing on ‘three amigos’ hiv/aids prevention programme

One of the world’s largest safe-sex initiatives was officially launched at United Nations Headquarters in New York today with the release of a series of 20 funny, animated public service announcements aimed chiefly at 15- to 24-year-olds worldwide to entrench the use of condoms to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Press BRIEFING ON TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT

 

Updating reporters on the massive relief and recovery efforts in South Asia, a senior United Nations humanitarian official today said that, while aid agencies were starting to “get a grip on things” throughout Sri Lanka and elsewhere, long stretches of washed out roads and clogged airports were complicating efforts to reach villages along Sumatra’s western coast.

press briefing ON TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT

 

Battling bad weather, washed out roads and clogged airports, United Nations agencies were working with local governments, foreign militaries and civic groups in pressing ahead with relief efforts in the countries affected by the massive Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that left an arc of destruction from Thailand to the Horn of Africa a little more than two weeks ago, a top emergency official said today.

Press briefing on oios investigation in Democratic Republic of Congo