PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR LIBERIA

Briefing correspondents today on the situation in Liberia, Jacques Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Liberia, said that the country had “stepped back in time”.

PRESS BRIEFING ON UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

“The era of peacekeeping operations is changing”, said Major-General Patrick Cammaert, Military Adviser to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), at a Headquarters press briefing today.

NGO PRESS BRIEFING ON HUMAN SECURITY

Speaking to the press on the last day of the DPI/NGO Conference on “Human Security and Dignity:  fulfilling the Promise of the United Nations”, two of the event’s key speakers emphasized the importance of an integrated approach to reducing global human suffering and insecurity, which should bring together State and civil society players. 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ‘ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS’ BY INTERNATIONAL COLLEGIUM

At a Headquarters press conference this morning, the International Ethical, Political and Scientific Collegium called for development of an agenda that would improve global governance and focus the world’s energies and attention on solving the problems of an increasingly interdependent world.

NGO PRESS BRIEFING ON GLOBAL AIDS FUND

PRESS BRIEFING BY NGO COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Discussion at a press conference today given by representatives of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC) -- a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in support of the ICC -- centred on the Coalition’s perception of the challenges to the Rome Statute, including the United States’ bilateral immunity agreements, and infringements on the Statute by the Security Council. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY PANEL ON UN-CIVIL SOCIETY RELATIONS

PRESS BRIEFING ON DIGITAL NETWORK FOR LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN

The creation of The Digital Diaspora Network for Latin America and the Caribbean was the continuation of a new road taken by the United Nations to engage the private sector with civil society in finding creative solutions to the digital divide, correspondents were told today at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS BRIEFING ON WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT

This year’s World Investment Report indicated that foreign direct investment (FDI) flows for 2003 were set to remain depressed, and some countries continued to receive so little that questions had been raised on how to stimulate private investment in poor areas, Principal Officer Georg Kell of the Secretary-General’s Office said this morning at a Headquarters press briefing on the World Investment report launched earlier today in Geneva.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS

At his first press briefing as the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland told correspondents this afternoon that, while the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had a better response system today than when it was first created in the wake of the Gulf War in 1991, it was now at a crossroads with problems on several fronts.