PRESS CONFERENCE BY GEORGIA

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, Georgia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Revaz Adamia, appealed to the Security Council to assume effective leadership over the peace process in Abkhazia, in light of what he referred to as the Russian Federation’s ongoing annexation of that region. 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The first resumed meeting of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to take place from 3 to 7 February at Headquarters, will elect 18 Judges to the Court from among candidates nominated by 43 countries, William Pace, Convenor, Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) Coalition of the International Criminal Court, told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

The ratification and accession to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women -- the most comprehensive international human rights treaties for the advancement of women -- continued at a steady pace and was nearing universal accession, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon by several members of the Convention’s monitoring body.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Inaccurate information in the international community about a terrorist threat in Trinidad and Tobago could cause incalculable harm to the island, John Donaldson, Special Envoy from Trinidad and Tobago told correspondents at Headquarters today.

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. 

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TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

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

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. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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.