PRESS BRIEFING ON ‘OIL-FOR-FOOD’ PROGRAMME

Despite shortcomings, the “oil-for-food” programme, established by the Security Council, had been successful in mitigating the devastating consequences of sanctions for the Iraqi people, the Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Programme told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The election of Luis Moreno Ocampo as the first chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was yet another momentous step in laying the foundation for the most important human rights organization created in the last 50 years, correspondents were told at a Headquarters pres conference today. 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON 2003 ASIA AND PACIFIC ECONOMIC SURVEY

Despite the lacklustre performance of the global economy in 2002, developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region performed surprisingly well, achieving a 5 per cent growth during the year, Murari Raj Sharma, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON TRADE OF IRAQI CULTURAL OBJECTS

A meeting of 30 international archaeological experts has urgently recommended that a ban be placed on the trade of all cultural objects from Iraq, Mounir Bouchenaki, Assistant Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS BRIEFING ON ‘SARS’ BY WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION OFFICIAL

The potential of the newly identified Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was still not clear, particularly whether it would become a permanent infectious disease, the Executive Director of the Communicable Diseases Cluster of the World Health Organization (WHO), David Heymann, said today at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY GERMANY

The United Nations must focus intensely on providing the means and money to fulfil its 2000 pledge to reduce global abject poverty by 2015, ensure universal access to safe drinking water and provide education for all school-aged children, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development of Germany, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

A meeting scheduled for Headquarters on Monday, 14 April will bring the Economic and Social Council and the Bretton Woods institutions together in the first major public occasion to review the implementation of agreements reached at last year’s International Conference on Financing for Development,
Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON IRAQ HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

Access to vulnerable Iraqi populations, lawlessness and the need to ensure security were among the issues raised by representatives of several

non-governmental organizations at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Mexico and Pakistan.

PRESS BRIEFING ON MISSION TO DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ADVISER