PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

The United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms this morning announced today’s opening at United Nations Headquarters of the first-ever International Conference on the Illicit Tobacco Trade.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

PRESS CONFERENCE BY WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

HEADQUARTERS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA

The situation in Rwanda, including the resolution of the crisis in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the pace of proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, was the subject of a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING BY INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Claude Jorda, said the Tribunal was happy with the response and support it had received from the Security Council after presenting its report on the overall strategy aimed at completing the Tribunal's work during the period 2008-2010.

PRESS BRIEFING ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

The United Nations has launched an appeal for $611 million to avert a humanitarian crisis of "staggering proportions" in southern Africa, said Kenzo Oshima, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, at Headquarters today.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (ICC) had completed all tasks given to it by the Rome Conference, its Chairman, Philippe Kirsch (Canada), told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING ON TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN

Recognizing that trafficking in women was a growing problem and that local authorities were doing nothing to stop it, the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH)created STOP -- the Special Trafficking Operation Programme -- the head of that programme told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

Following yesterday’s two gloomy reports on the HIV/AIDS pandemic worldwide, Stephen Lewis, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa, today told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing that the scourge in Africa was now “conclusively and irreversibly a ferocious assault on women and girls”.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES