PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIERRA LEONE

The Government of Sierra Leone did not trust President Charles Taylor of Liberia to carry out all the assurances he had given regarding the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Sierra Leone’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sama S. Banya, told correspondents at United Nations Headquarters today. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF RWANDA

"The international community needs to give us a commitment that if we withdraw from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it will help us to deal with the consequences of that action", Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

At the end of the Second World War, “we said never again”, to genocide, but unfortunately there is genocide again, terrible ethnic cleansing and the rise of Nazi-like movements among youths, which, if not addressed, could be very, very worrying trends for the future, Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS BRIEFING ON IFAD RURAL POVERTY REPORT 2001

PRESS CONFERENCE ON BRAZILIAN CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME

Education was key to the eradication of child labour, Cristovam Buarque, founder of "Bolsa Escola", told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.   

PRESS BRIEFING ON ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE

Carina Perelli, Director of the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press briefing, that demand for United Nations electoral assistance was growing exponentially, with the Division about to embark on a new mission to East Timor to assist in preparations for elections.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE SESSION

The excitement of the recently adopted Optional Protocol to the major key women's rights convention had permeated the entire three-week session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, a high-level United Nations official told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS BRIEFING ON PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN'S SPECIAL SESSION

There was a clear international consensus around children, and about building a world fit for them, Patricia Durrant, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, and Chair of the just-concluded meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children, told correspondents at the noon press briefing at Headquarters today.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

The Democratic Republic of the Congo was now, had always been, committed to peace, Joseph Kabila, that country's President, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this evening.