PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT SPONSORED BY CANADA

The entire global legal environment will be different at midnight on Monday 1 July when the Rome Statute goes into force, a representative of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court said this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by Canada’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

In an inauspicious start to the new millennium, the turnaround in the world economy, following a precipitous decline in growth in 2001, was not expected to be either rapid or synchronized in 2002, Ian C. Kinniburgh, Director of the Development Policy Analysis Division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, told correspondents this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR, UN POPULATION DIVISION

Enormous behavioural change in the reproductive sexual practices of men and women was needed to deal with the increasing consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Director of the United Nations Population Division told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF SYRIA

Syria hoped that United States President George W. Bush’s delay in announcing his initiative for the Middle East would turn out to be in the interest of a just and comprehensive peace in the region and not vice versa, the Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister told correspondents at a wide-ranging Headquarters press conference today.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS GOODWILL AMBASSADORS

Describing the impact of celebrity advocacy in the new millennium at a Headquarters press conference today, a panel of United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors described the possibilities and challenges of bringing the message of the United Nations to a larger audience.

PRESS BRIEFING BY INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

Political leaders, particularly those in developing countries, should invest in the new information technologies and make it their number one priority policy issue, Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), told correspondents at a Headquarters briefing today.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION

OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING TO LAUNCH UNCTAD REPORT ON LDCS

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT-ELECT OF COLOMBIA

Following a meeting with the Secretary-General on the subject of violence affecting his country, the President-elect of Colombia delivered a statement on the matter at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

Alvaro Uribe Velez will be inaugurated for a four-year term of office on

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PRESS BRIEFING ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT