PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS

The United States was refusing to acknowledge the role of small arms in fuelling violence around the world, Michael Beard, President of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, USA, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON UN FINANCIAL SITUATION BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL CONNOR

The much-anticipated reduction in the level of debt to Member States might finally be achieved -- a major financial event for both Member States and the Organization, Under-Secretary-General for Management Joseph E. Connor told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS BY CO-PRESIDENT

OF EMINENT PERSONS GROUP ON SMALL ARMS

Despite the setbacks of the last two sessions of the Preparatory Committee on Small Arms, the current session would end with a good politically binding document which would provide Members States with a framework for dealing with

the problem of small arms, Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France and

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS

It was not enough for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Small Arms and its Preparatory Committee to limit discussion purely to illegal arms transfers, Lloyd Axworthy, Co-Chair of the Global Coalition of non-governmental organizations and Like-minded States on Small Arms told correspondents this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

The confrontation in Macedonia was not between Macedonians and Albanians, but between the ballot box and taking up arms, the permanent representative of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. 

SWEDEN’S MINISTER TELLS JOURNALISTS OF HIS CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM

ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR NEW GLOBAL TRADE TALKS ROUND

There was reason for cautious optimism about the possibilities for launching a new round of global trade talks later this year, because it was increasingly clear that developing countries were working for a new round, Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish Minister for Trade and Globalization, told correspondents at a Headquarters this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING TO LAUNCH ‘UN WORKS’ WEB SITE

A Web site to illustrate how the work of the United Nations positively impacted on people’s lives was launched at Headquarters yesterday by Shashi Tharoor, the Interim Head of the Department of Public Information.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS

Members of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) expressed strong concern this afternoon over links between legal and illegal arms flows as they addressed a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).  IANSA, a global network of 320 non-governmental organizations and faith-based groups from 70 countries, was formed in 1998.

PRESS BRIEFING BY COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

Women were not born vulnerable but were made vulnerable by persistent gender-based discrimination and that was why the work of the Commission on the Status of Women was so important, Dubravaka Simonovic, Commission Chair, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY KOSOVO SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

“The future for Kosovo Serbs is dependent on their integration into Kosovo society”, Hans Haekkerup, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, after briefing the Security Council on the situation in that province.