NGO PRESS CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING

The Monterrey Consensus must put people before profits, Hellen Wangusa of African Women's Economic Policy Network, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations. 

PRESS BRIEFING ON NYAIGONGO ERUPTION BY OFFICE

FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP ON AFGHANISTAN

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA

Having just assumed the Chairmanship of the "Group of 77" developing nations and China, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, at a Headquarters press conference this morning said that he was beginning the new year with a great deal of faith, strength and optimism.  He was pleased to have received the great responsibility of the chairmanship from Iran at the ceremony this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION

There was more bad news in the United Nations' analysis of world economic developments -- world economic growth was the lowest in a decade and the prospects for 2002 were no better, the Director of the Policy Analysis Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF Counter-terrorism cOMMITTEE

The Counter-Terrorism Committee had gotten an "extremely good" response to its requirement that national reports be submitted by a 27 December 2001 deadline, Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock of the United Kingdom, Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE

The Prime Minister of Greece, Costa Simitis, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today that he had had an open and friendly discussion with the Secretary-General today, who had pointed to the possibility of having the outlines for a solution to the Cyprus question by the end of June.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL COMPACT

Big business knew that it was already at the centre of world criticism about what was going on in the name of globalization; the Global Compact was a chance to show the world what it was doing about it, a member of the Advisory Council for the Secretary-General's "Global Compact" initiative said today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

The HIV/AIDS pandemic could be driven back in Africa over the next year if several countries met targets they set more than 30 years ago for official development assistance (ODA), Stephen Lewis, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.

BRIEFING BY CHAIRMAN OF SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SOMALIA

As the Security Council Committee concerning Somalia adopted its report today, members considered it imperative to recall the fact that there was an arms embargo against that country, Noureddine Mejdoub of Tunisia told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing.