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’

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.