PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION ON UN NEWS SERVICE

The Interim Head of the Department of Public Information (DPI), Shashi Tharoor, today announced the launch of a United Nations news service that will deliver, via e-mail, breaking stories and reports of other developments from the United Nations system worldwide to subscribers throughout the world.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY NGO ADVOCACY GROUP

Representatives of the Non-Governmental Organization Advocacy Group this afternoon called for the world's governments to ensure that their promises of increased development assistance, announced last month in Monterrey, Mexico, would result in greater emphasis on the socio-economic and environmental needs of people -- and not in even more uncontrollable globalization.

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

MONTERREY PRESS BRIEFING BY NGO CAUCUS

The NGO Caucus was not part of the Monterrey Consensus, even though its statement would be read out at the final plenary session of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Caucus representatives said this afternoon.

MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, WORLD BANK PRESIDENT,

IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR, WTO DIRECTOR-GENERAL

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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.