Press Conference

Press conference on 2004 global economic outlook

Despite the current turbulent world situation, things were, from an economic point of view, looking better for the near-term with the world economy expected to grow by 3.7 per cent this year, Nobel Laureate Lawrence Klein, founder of project LINK, told correspondents this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON ROAD, TRAFFIC SAFETY

PRESS BRIEFING ON DISASTER-REDUCTION INITIATIVES

In 2003 alone, over 70,000 people perished in some 700 disasters that affected 600 million men, women and children and caused $65 billion in damages, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing. 

press conference by human rights committee

Experts from the United Nations panel monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights held a press conference at Headquarters today, wrapping up a three-week session at which the Human Rights Committee considered and adopted concluding observations and recommendations on the reports submitted by Colombia, Uganda, Germany, Suriname and Lithuania.

                                                            2 April 2004

Press CONFERENCE by security council president

The Security Council President for the month of April, Gunter Pleuger (Germany), briefing correspondents on the Council’s schedule, said that the most politically sensitive discussion would concern the draft resolution on weapons of mass destruction, around which a “positive groundswell” was forming to evolve a Security Council text.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HEAD OF SERBIANORTHODOXCHURCH IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

The recent violence in Kosovo and Metohija constituted a tremendous pogrom against Serbs living there, executed by Albanian terrorists, Bishop Artemije of the Diocese of Prizen and Raska, Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija, told correspondents this afternoon during a press conference at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON HIV/AIDS IN SWAZILAND

A senior United Nations official today said that for the Kingdom of Swaziland, the written logo of its existence had been expressed on the cover of most recent Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) HIV prevalence report:  “A Nation at War with AIDS”.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SIERRA LEONE

Of the five benchmarks established to evaluate developments in Sierra Leone, the most progress had been achieved in the security sector, Daudi Mwakawago, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ SECURITY ACCOUNTABILITY

United Nations Spokesman Fred Eckhard today announced Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s administrative decisions, including calls for the resignation of senior United Nations officials, in reaction to the findings of the report of the Security in Iraq Accountability Panel.