Press Conference

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 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.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN

The creation of an independent executive directorate would revitalize the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, that body’s Chairman, Inocencio F. Arias (Spain), said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

                                                            25 March 2004

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WEST AFRICA

Conflicts in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone were interlinked and required a common solution, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Foreign Minister of Ghana and acting Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), said this morning as he briefed correspondents, along with Pierre-Andre Wiltzer, Minister for Cooperation and Francophone Affairs of France.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA

Tomorrow, the Secretary-General would present his report on ways to combat subregional and cross-border problems in West Africa, today’s guest at noon, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS INTERNET INITIATIVES

BRIEFING ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION’S 37^TH SESSION

Briefing correspondents on the thirty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development at a Headquarters press briefing this morning, Joseph Chamie, the Director of the United Nations Population Division, said there had been remarkable change in global population trends and policies in the last three decades.