PRESS BRIEFING BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT JEAN PING (GABON)

 

Briefing correspondents today, just after the General Assembly elected five members to the Security Council to serve the usual two-year terms, Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) said that a consensus had emerged during the Assembly’s debate this week on Council reform, adding that “things were moving fast, positions were moving fast, countries were moving fast”.

Press conference on International anti-poverty day

 

(Issued on 15 October.)

In the lead up to next year’s mid-term review of efforts to implement the Millennium Development Goals, the observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty assumed added importance, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

Press conference on general assembly observance

 

of cairo population programme anniversary

 

(Issued on 14 October 2004.)

PRESS CONFERENCE BY WOLFGANG PETRITSCH, PRESIDENT–DESIGNATE

 

OF NAIROBISUMMIT ON MINE-FREE WORLD

(Issued on 13 October 2004.)

The First Review Conference of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines, unofficially known as the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World, is to be held at the Kenyan capital from 29 November to 3 December 2004, it was announced at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

press briefing by United Nations office on drugs, crime

 

The end was in sight for the 100-year-old opium trade in the “Golden Triangle” of Myanmar, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Thailand, Vincent McClean, New York representative of the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing to launch the 2004 Opium Survey on Myanmar.

Press conference by MAYOR OF PARIS

 

The Association of Local Authorities in the World was working on a proposal to assist in the provision of drinking water in parts of the world facing shortages, Bertrand Delanoe, Mayor of Paris and co-chairperson of the Association told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

Press conference by United Nations Environment Programme on bottom trawl fishing

Press briefing by Security Council President

 

Briefing correspondents at Headquarters today on the Security Council’s work programme for October, Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom), whose delegation presides over the Council for the month, said it had begun quite busily and promised to get busier.  He noted that the situations in the Sudan, Iraq and the Middle East, and international terrorism were among items on the calendar.

press conference by under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs

to launch flash appeals for haiti, grenada

 

The hurricanes that hit the Caribbean recently had a totally devastating impact on Haiti and Grenada, Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference to launch flash appeals for urgent humanitarian relief in the two countries.

Press conference by FOREIGN MINISTER of timor-leste