PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF FRANCE

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, Dominique de Villepin, held a press conference at Headquarters today following the high-level meeting he convened in the Security Council on combating terrorism. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA

Stating that there would be no civil war in Venezuela, its President Hugo Chavez Frias said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference that what his Government was confronting was a “subversive movement”, which used terrorism to impose its views against the national Constitution. 

NGO PRESS BRIEFING ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

Several non-governmental organizations (NGOs), at a briefing for correspondents at Headquarters today, urged the United Nations Security Council to take immediate steps to protect children’s security and rights in armed conflicts around the world. 

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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen -– and Happy New Year!

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPUTY RELIEF COORDINATOR

The humanitarian emergency brought about by the civil crisis in Côte d’Ivoire was rapidly deteriorating, with as many as one million people having been displaced since Christmas, Carolyn McAskie, the United Nations’ Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing today. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Although the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), it had no intention of producing nuclear weapons or using its nuclear technology for anything other than peaceful purposes, such as generating electricity, that country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Pak Gil Yon, told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON 2003 WORLD ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

Following a slower than expected start, the world economy was projected to pick up in the second half of 2003, Ian Kinniburgh, Director, Development Policy Analysis Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told correspondents this morning as he presented the “World Economic Situation and Prospects 2003”.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon said a major newspaper in the United States, reflecting on the paucity of resources available for the fight against the AIDS pandemic, used a startling phrase, “murder by complacency”.  He differed in that assessment in only one particular:  “It’s mass murder by complacency”.

PRESS BRIEFING ON CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

At the beginning of the New Year, a top priority for the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in the Central African Republic was to prevent the resumption of generalized conflict in that country, the Secretary-General's Special Representative told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.