PRESS BRIEFING ON TSUNAMI DISASTER

 

Describing the tsunami which struck several Asian countries over the weekend as the worst natural disaster in history, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland this morning appealed to donors to respond generously to relief efforts.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was a clarion call to both complement and challenge the South at all levels, this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today, on the observance of the first annual United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SUDAN

 

PRESS BRIEFING BY IRAQ SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

Just weeks ahead of national elections in Iraq, the senior United Nations envoy to the country today said that even amid abiding concerns over the security situation and political inclusiveness, he had every reason to believe that the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq (IECI) would be able to hold a credible, transparent and fair ballot on 30 January.

Press conference by african ambassadors

 

Speaking with one voice at a Headquarters Press Conference this evening, 14 Ambassadors from the African Group and a representative of the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union pledged their support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan and urged “detractors” not to weaken him or his morale during his dedicated daily hard work at the helm of the United Nations.

Press conference ON ‘HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING’

 

The transformative power of human rights learning must be seen as an integral part of building a global community based on a culture of human rights, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference today.

Press Briefing by General Assembly president

 

With the opening round of informal negotiations on United Nations reform well underway in New York, the President of the world body’s 191-member General Assembly today cautioned reporters not to expect a “revolution” when all was said and done, but to expect a viable and adaptable Organization more reflective of modern-day realities.

Press conference by peruvian ambassador on ‘the myth of development’

Asserting that the term “developing country” was a misnomer, and that today’s poor States would be better described as “non-viable national economies”, Peruvian Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero presented his book “The Myth of Development”, during a press conference held this afternoon at United Nations Headquarters.

Press conference on smallislands meeting by Secretary-General’s

 

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Press conference on 2004 world hunger report

 

With more than 800 million people in the developing world still suffering from chronic hunger, progress to reach the 1996 World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people worldwide by 2015 had been far too slow, Florence Chenoweth, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing today.