Press Conference

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE ON UNITED NATIONS-EUROPEAN UNION RELATIONS

PRESS CONFERENCE ON HIV/AIDS

Another round of negotiations on the key outcome document of the forthcoming General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS began at headquarters yesterday.

The talks this week will seek agreement on a revised draft of the "Declaration of Commitment" to be adopted at the special session scheduled for

25 to 27 June.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HEAD OF SECURITY COUNCIL MISSION TO GREAT LAKES REGION

The Security Council mission leaving tomorrow for the Great Lakes region would lend support to the parties implementing the Lusaka accord to which they had agreed in 1999, the head of the mission said.  Jean-David Levitte, France’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, made that clarification this afternoon at Headquarters while briefing correspondents on the nature of the mission.

PRESS BRIEFING ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES CONFERENCE

Global policy-makers will confront economic isolation and severe poverty of the world's 49 poorest countries, at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which begins in Brussels, Belgium, next Monday, correspondents were told at a press briefing at United Nations Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS

Afghanistan was living through the fastest growing displacement crisis in the world today, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Internally Displaced Persons told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING TO LAUNCH BILLION MOM MARCH

The women who marched through the streets of the world raising their voices on behalf of present and future generations should translate their grief into a force for mobilizing world action against the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Jayantha Dhanapala told correspondents at a press briefing this afternoon to launch the "Billion Mom March".

PRESS BRIEFING BY CARLA DEL PONTE, PROSECUTOR

FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS

A total of 38 people accused of committing war crimes in the former Yugoslavia remained at large, 12 of them living in Serbia and the rest in the Republika Srpska, Carla del Ponte, Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR KOSOVO

A Security Council mission is to visit Kosovo in the near future, Hans Haekkerup, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK), said at a Headquarters briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF GREECE

The world had already seen proof that the Olympic Truce was a workable idea and not simply a theoretical concept, George Papandreou, Foreign Minister of Greece, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY LIBERIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER

Liberia’s Foreign Minister yesterday protested the imposition of Security Council sanctions on his country, saying at a Headquarters press conference that his country had been “indicted on secret evidence”.