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.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES

At a press conference today in Monterrey, United States Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill laid out in full President Bush’s “Millennium Challenge”, which would increase aid by $5 billion to the developing world, reflecting his determination to play a useful and significant role in world economic development, while holding both receiving and donating nations accountable for real results.

MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN-HABITAT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MAYOR OF MONTERREY

Some 1.2 billion people in the world lived without adequate shelter, Anna Kajumulo Tibajuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), told correspondents this afternoon.

MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY EUROPEAN UNION

Poul Nielson, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, European Union (EU), announced an increase in EU official development assistance (ODA) to 0.39 per cent of gross national product (GNP) -- from the current

0.33 level -- which would translate into an extra $7 billion in aid per year from EU member States by 2006.  

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

“I wished I had known then what I know now about the third world”, former United States President Jimmy Carter said today at a press conference in Monterrey, referring to how little Americans understood about how little they gave and how desperately aid was needed.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF

Economic development must go hand in hand with human development, Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told correspondents at a press briefing in Monterrey this afternoon.

MONTERREY PRESS CONFERENCE BY SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT CHAIRMAN, UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

Developed countries should use the special drawing rights (SDR) allocated to them as a novel form of international assistance to developing countries, Soros Fund Management President and Chairman George Soros proposed at a press conference this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNCTAD

The head of electronic finance (E-Finance) for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva briefed journalists in Monterrey today on the just-concluded side event entitled “E-Finance for Development”.   He also drew attention to the draft recommendations addressed to the Conference.

MONTERREY PRESS BRIEFING ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

After weeks of intensive negotiating, countries had reached agreement on a wide range of issues that put development at the centre of global financial reforms and paved the way for the International Conference on Financing for Development, Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said at a press conference Sunday afternoon in Monterrey, Mexico.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF MEXICO AND UNDP ADMINISTRATOR

The International Conference on Financing for Development was the critical middle act in a three-conference storyline that had begun with the Millennium Summit of 2000, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch Brown said in Monterrey, Mexico, this morning.