PRESS CONFERENCE BY AFRICAN GROUP OF STATES

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

FOR ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

Despite problems that must be resolved, the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea would not fall apart, Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Ethiopia and Eritrea and Chief of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON UN PEACE OPERATIONS REPORT

PRESS BRIEFING BY UN DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR WOMEN ON MILLENNIUM PEACE PRIZE

The winners of a new award -- the Millennium Peace Prize for Women -- were announced by Noeleen Heyzer, Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), at a press briefing today as part of Headquarters' activities commemorating International Women’s Day.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

Unless urgent measures were taken, the ethnic tensions of Kosovo could spill over its borders and destabilize the entire region, Zoran Zizic, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN CHILDREN’S FUND

Addressing child marriage as a violation of a child's basic rights, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) released a new report today entitled "Early Marriage: Child Spouses".  The report looks at the many implications of child marriages and analyses their root causes, seeking to begin a global campaign to end that widespread practice.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WOMEN'S COMMISSION

Gender mainstreaming, trafficking in human beings and gender aspects of the problems of HIV/AIDS and racism were among the issues to be highlighted during the two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which began its work today, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING

At a Headquarters press conference today on preparations for the Second World Assembly on Ageing, John Langmore, Director of the Division of Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said the fact that many people were living longer was one of the greatest achievements of the twentieth century.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN MINE ACTION SERVICE

The remarkable headway achieved by recent international and regional initiatives aimed at banning, as well as curbing the sale or transfer of anti-personnel landmines, confirmed the global community's renewed sense of energy to ensure the safety of the world's people, Martin Barber, Chief of the United Nations Mine Action Service told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

DAILY BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of the daily press briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.

Spokesman for the Secretary-General