29/11/2004

Press Briefing

press briefing by president of General Assembly

 

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was committed to dismantling its nuclear weapons programme within the framework of the overall denuclearization of the KoreanPeninsula, General Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) said at Headquarters today.

29/11/2004

Press Briefing

press briefing by Department of Economic and Social Affairs

With international migrants now numbering more than 175 million worldwide -– about 3 per cent of the global population –- the international community should join forces to turn the migration phenomenon into a win-win situation for all, Joseph Chamie, Director of the United Nations Population Division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs said at a Headquarters briefing today.

23/11/2004

Press Briefing

press conference by viacom on first global creative meeting on hiv/aids

 

Media people were finally getting the message that they had a social responsibility to spread information about HIV/AIDS and work to prevent it, both through their companies and individually, Sumner Redstone, chairman and chief executive officer of Viacom, said at a Headquarters press conference today.

23/11/2004

Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON LAUNCH OF ‘AIDS EPIDEMIC UPDATE 2004’

 

Women were increasingly infected with HIV and now accounted for an estimated half of the 37.2 million people worldwide living with the deadly virus, Desmond Johns, Director of the New York Office of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), told a news conference at Headquarters this afternoon.

22/11/2004

Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ALLEGATIONS RELATED

 

TO UN MISSION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) had deployed a special investigative team to come up with short- and long-term strategies to deal with cases of sexual exploitation and abuse at peacekeeping missions, Jane Holl Lute, an Assistant Secretary-General in the DPKO, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

19/11/2004

Press Briefing

Press conference by permanent representative of iraq

A recent statement issued by 29 Saudi Arabian scholars in Islamic jurisprudence to support the Iraqi insurgency was a misuse of Islam for political purposes, Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaidaie, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations, said this morning at his first Headquarters press conference.

18/11/2004

Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN OPIUM SURVEY 2004

 

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased by 64 per cent when compared to 2003, said Vincent McClean, New York Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, speaking this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference to introduce the “Afghanistan Opium Survey 2004”.

17/11/2004

Press Briefing

Press conference on year of microcredit

 

The International Year of Microcredit 2005 was an effort to bring sustained public attention to one of development’s great success stories, namely the extraordinary spread of microfinance, Mark Malloch Brown, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

The fight against infectious disease had always been a moral imperative, but in the present era it was now a security imperative, correspondents were told at a Headquarters Press Conference today upon the launch of an expanded Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN).  The Network monitors media sources and health and science web sites for early word about disease outbreaks, contaminated food and water, bioterrorism, chemical or radiological exposure, and natural disasters.  

Ted Turner, in his capacity as Co-Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and contributor to t

16/11/2004

Press Briefing

Press briefing on International Year of Microcredit 2005

 

The International Year of Microcredit 2005 will be officially launched on Thursday, 18 November, at Headquarters, Henriette Keijzers, Deputy Executive Secretary and Officer-In-Charge of the United Nations Capital Development Fund, announced at a press briefing this morning.  The General Assembly designated the Year by its resolution 53/197 of 15 December 1998.