PRESS BRIEFING BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

France's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Security Council President for the month of January, Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, briefed correspondents this afternoon on the Council's provisional programme of work for the month.

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF MONITORING GROUP ON SANCTIONS

AGAINST AL QAEDA, THE TALIBAN AND ASSOCIATES

Great strides had been made in combating Al Qaeda, but the terrorist group still posed a major threat to global peace and security, the Chairman of a Security Council monitoring group said at a Headquarters briefing today.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CANADA

Today was a great day for the planet, for Canada and for the world, David Anderson, Canada's Minister of the Environment, proclaimed to correspondents this morning, as he announced his country's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

At a United Nations Headquarters Press Conference today, Olara Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, launched a new report, in which the Secretary-General provides for the Security Council's review a list of parties in conflict situations who continue to recruit and use child soldiers.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING ON UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

With the upcoming closure of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), that Mission would enter the history books as the "most extensive police reform and restructuring mission in the history of the United Nations," Jacques Klein told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE TO MARK LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FRESHWATER 2003

Partnerships and community efforts and initiatives in protecting and improving water resources were urged by speakers at a Headquarters press conference, which followed today’s official launching of the International Year of Freshwater 2003, proclaimed by the General Assembly three years ago.

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENCY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Thanks to the United Nations Mission now coming to a successful end in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country was ready to take on its responsibilities as a stable force in the region, the Presiding Member of its Presidency told reporters at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION

Five years and $575 million later, the United Nations Foundation had proved an unparalleled success in partnering diverse global organizations with United Nations agencies, funds and Programmes to help tackle pressing universal issues such as fighting deadly preventable diseases, promoting women’s health and protecting the environment, the Foundation’s President told reporters this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TIMOR-LESTE

Timor-Leste was celebrating International Human Rights Day by ratifying all major United Nations human rights treaties, said Jose Luis Guterres, Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste, at a Headquarters Press Conference this morning.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE