Press Conference

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 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. 

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 HAITI HUMANITARIAN AID

Only $35 million had been pledged for Haiti’s reconstruction, which was nowhere near the amount needed to respond to the crisis, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS BRIEFING ON UN NUTRITION REPORT

Improvements in nutrition had failed to keep up as the world grew richer over the last 20 years, Catherine Bertini, Under-Secretary-General for Management, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

The time had come not to have more major conferences, but to “roll up our sleeves” and start implementing the commitments already undertaken, Economic and Social Council President Marjatta Rasi (Finland) told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press briefing on the state of the world’s least developed countries (LDCs).

PRESS BRIEFING ON NIGERIA POLIO ERADICATION

The Government and United Nations agencies were now poised for a massive effort to re-launch a polio eradication programme in Nigeria, correspondents were told today at a Headquarters press briefing.