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.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE

 

Teams of sharpshooters at the Hotel Ivoire, the crushed cranium of a young girl and the ripped abdomen of a pregnant women were among the images on an amateur videotape that Philippe Djangone-Bi, Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire, showed correspondents at Headquarters today as examples of “French repression” in his country and “the use of heavy weapons of war against peaceful demonstrators”.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

Press CONFERENCE BY HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON THREATS, CHALLENGES, CHANGE

Using the new report on United Nations reform as a starting point, Member States would now have to decide if they wanted a more effective organization, said Anand Panyarachun, Chair of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, this morning, at a Headquarters press conference on the Panel’s report, entitled “A More Secure World:  Our Shared Responsibility”.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME TO LAUNCH ‘TELLING TALES’