PRESS CONFERENCE BY GEORGIA

Recent air raids had left three Georgian civilians dead and seven injured, said the Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations, Revaz Adamia, at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. 

BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PERSONAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY

At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Catherine Bertini reported on an eight-day visit to the Middle East as the Secretary-General’s Personal Humanitarian Envoy.  She said that there was a serious humanitarian crisis in the region that would spiral downward if action was not taken.  She characterized the situation as a crisis of “access”.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY RWANDA

The Government of Rwanda was fully committed to the implementation of the Pretoria Peace accord, Rwanda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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

The message that would hopefully emerge from the World Summit on Sustainable Development was that the insidious global spread of poverty and environmental stress was the real security threat that must be addressed, Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF AD HOC COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS

AND DIGNITY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

A United Nations expert on housing and land rights this afternoon strongly condemned the Israeli military's methodical destruction of homes and habitat as well as its systematic confiscation of land in the occupied Palestinian territories.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

Briefing correspondents this afternoon following his recent mission to Afghanistan, Olara Otunnu, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, called for major investments in the children and youth of that country, particularly in the areas of education, nutrition and basic medical care.

PRESS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT TOBACCO TRADE

The Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Cluster on Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, Derek Yach, briefed correspondents upon the conclusion today of the International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade.

Dr. Yach reminded correspondents that the Conference, which began on

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES BUREAU

OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREMAMS

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION PRESS CONFERENCE ON HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO

While the officials gathered at the ongoing International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade came from different backgrounds, they shared the same goal, the Executive Director of the World Health Organization's Cluster on Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health said at a Headquarters press conference yesterday.