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

Press conference by Special Representative for Sudan

 

To prevent the situation in Darfur from devolving into anarchy, the parties must be held accountable and a sizeable force must be deployed, according to Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, who this afternoon answered correspondents’ questions at a Headquarters press conference concerning his earlier briefing to the Security Council.

Press Briefing by UN Under-Secretary-General for management

Press conference by SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR

(Issued on 2 November 2004)

Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, said he was “somewhat sceptical” that there would be democracy “at the end of the tunnel” when the country hosted a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2006.

Press conference by NORWAY’S MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Reaching the Millennium Development Goals would require the kind of reforms her country was instituting with its approach to the peace process in the Sudan, Norway’s Minister of International Development said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

Press conference by human rights rapporteur

 

On Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

 

(Issued on 1 November 2004.)

PRESS BRIEFING ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

(Issued on 29 October 2004.)

While women were taking part in more peacekeeping missions, they were still largely excluded from high-level United Nations, civilian and military police jobs, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guéhenno said at a Headquarters press briefing today.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO FOOD

(Issued on 29 October 2004)

Because of the world’s riches, dying from hunger today was absurd, unnecessary and reflected a “murderous world order”, Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

Press briefing by UN expert on Human Rights in Afghanistan

 

(Issued on 29 October 2004.)