PRESS BRIEFING ON COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

At a Headquarters press briefing this morning correspondents were told about developments in the thirty-fifth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which is taking place all of this week and scheduled for completion on Friday.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

Despite the promises of globalization, about half a billion people in South Asia suffered declines in income during the 1990s, according to a report -- Human Development in South Asia 2001 -- released at Headquarters today.

PRESS BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE

PRESS CONFERENCE FOR WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING

Within the next 50 years, in the greatest demographic change ever seen, the number of people over 60 years of age will outnumber the people under 15, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Nitin Desai, said this afternoon, as he briefed correspondents on the Second World Assembly on Ageing, which will take place from 8 to 12 April in Madrid, Spain.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

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MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF HAITI

There could be no development in Haiti, and the people would continue to bear the brunt of the sanctions as long as economic sanctions imposed almost two years ago remained in place, Joseph Philippe Antonio, the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said at a press conference this evening.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

Recent reductions in services were not in contravention to the United Nations budget resolution, but rather, in fact, had been taken to comply with it, Under-Secretary-General for Management Joseph E. Connor told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

MONTERREY NGO PRESS CONFERENCE ON ROUND TABLES

The need to reform the international financial system was the main theme underlying the non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) evaluation of the ministerial round-table discussions, at a press conference moderated by Jocelyn Dow of Red Thread/Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).

MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN ON BEHALF OF EUROPEAN UNION

The International Conference on Financing for Development had been a huge success from the perspective of the European Union, Prime Minister José María Aznar of Spain told correspondents this morning.