21 March 2002

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.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS INVESTING IN AFRICA

A press conference entitled “Business Investing in Africa” reported on a meeting earlier today with government and business leaders of the Investment Advisory Council (IAC) for the Least Developed Countries and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on concrete steps to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa, which presently received only about 1 per cent of total investment flows. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL PROSECUTOR

The Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today that she was in a very difficult position, because she was receiving no cooperation from Belgrade.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ROUND TABLE B2

Coherence was the main subject discussed today in Ministerial Round

Table B2, Co-Chair Eveline Herfkens, Minister for Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, told correspondents at today’s evening press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY EUROPEAN, UNITED STATES NGOS

Caucuses of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States  and the European Union held a joint press conference today in Monterrey entitled “Official Development Assistance Offers of the European Union and the United States”.

PRESS BRIEFING BY NGO CAUCUS OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Members of the NGO Caucus of the Least Developed Countries this afternoon described the Monterrey consensus as a step backwards from all the commitments made over the years to help alleviate poverty in least developed countries.

PRESS CONFERENCE IN MONTERREY BY UN POPULATION FUND

With illiteracy and ill health still the norm for half the world, one sure way of dealing with those problems was investing in women -- that was an investment with guaranteed high returns, said the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a press conference this morning in Monterrey.

MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNDP ADMINISTRATOR,

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL ADVISER

Given sufficient help and political will, it was possible to achieve the Millennium Development Goals everywhere, Harvard professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Millennium Goals, told correspondents at a press conference in Monterrey this morning.