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.

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.

press briefing on Security Council mission to central africa

 

The Security Council mission to Central Africa from 20 to 26 November would emphasize the importance of stability and security in the region and express support for the peace processes under way in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi, mission leader Jean-Marc de La Sablière (France) said this morning at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

Press BRIEFING ON 2005 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

 

The present emergency in Cote d’Ivoire was an illustration of how very costly it was not to invest in humanitarian work, while other successes demonstrated a fantastic return on the money from such investment, the
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, said
this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing on the launch of the
2005 Humanitarian Appeal.

Press Briefing on energy and Millennium Development Goals

 

As the critical links between energy and the Millennium Development Goals were highlighted at a press briefing today, Susan McDade, Team Manager of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Sustainable Energy Programme, told correspondents that reaching those goals would require much greater investments in the provision of energy services through foreign aid, business and national expenditures.

Press conference by PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CôTE D’IVOIRE

Choosing between two evils had led the Government of Côte d’Ivoire to move against rebel-held areas last week, Philippe Djangone-Bi, that country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said today in clarifying the sequence of events leading up to the weekend air strikes that shattered a fragile ceasefire, leaving nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian dead.

Press briefing to launch ‘education for all global monitoring report 2005’

The quality of education, not simply wider access, was a key element in ensuring all children acquired the skills critical to building developing economies and societies, said Alberto Motivans, Research Officer at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), at a Headquarters press briefing today.

Press conference to launch International Year of Sport

 

The United Nations was turning more and more to the world of sports for help in working towards peace and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told correspondents at the Headquarters press launch of the International Year of Sport and Physical Education this afternoon.

Press briefing on Iraq electoral process