Press Conference

Marking World Malaria Day at a Headquarters press conference, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria and for the Financing of the Health-related Millennium Development Goals called for vigorous efforts to replenish the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Critical sexual and reproductive rights — as enshrined at the 1994 landmark International Conference on Population and Development (also known as the Cairo Programme of Action) — must be bolstered as a priority issue in the post-2015 development agenda, stressed high-profile speakers at a Headquarters press conference.

Research, information and balanced discussions would not only illuminate migration’s economical and social benefits to development, but inform policies that addressed its complex challenges, said migration experts at a Headquarters press conference today.

Crises of governance, corruption and nepotism were at the root cause of unrest in Mali, said Comfort Ero, Director of the International Crisis Group’s Africa Programme, at a Headquarters press conference today as she introduced the Group’s report, “Mali: Security, Dialogue, and Meaningful Reform”.

Amid widening income inequalities and depleting natural resources, the Asia-Pacific region was facing subdued growth in 2013, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

Though entitled to do so, neither the Government of Iran nor the national Red Crescent Society had requested external assistance from the United Nations or any other source following yesterday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the moderately populated Sistan va Baluchestan region, the United Nations Resident Coordinator said today.

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York today, 17 April:

The past weeks have been a busy and exciting time featuring a number of historic events, General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić (Serbia) said today as he reviewed recent meetings and forecast the schedule for the coming months.

There was an urgent need to re-balance not only the global economy, but also global governance, two participants in a Headquarters press conference said today, underlining the clear necessity to create institutions reflecting the new balance of economic power in today’s world.

The 2012 figures on use of the death penalty confirmed the overall global trend towards abolition, a senior Amnesty International official said at a Headquarters press conference today.