PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS LEGAL COUNSEL

The Security Council would assess the future application of United Nations sanctions against the Government of Libya following the Lockerbie trial’s conclusion, a senior United Nations official told correspondents at a press briefing at Headquarters today.

INDIA RECEIVES $1 MILLION FOR EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FROM FOUNDATION

A $1 million donation to the Indian Government to support its relief efforts after last week's earthquake was announced today at a press conference at Headquarters.  The donation, by philanthropic organization the W.P.Carey Foundation, was the largest private sector donation received by India thus far.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT REPORT LAUNCHED

A comprehensive assessment of how the world's development financing needs can be met -- prepared by the United Nations in consultation with the leading international trade, financial and development agencies -- was released today in New York. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY UN EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ADVISOR

ON GLOBAL COMPACT AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

The Secretary-General will deliver a major keynote address to the World Economic Forum this Sunday, providing world political and business leaders with an update on the Global Compact, his Special Advisor, John Ruggie, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY LIBERIA

Liberia's relationship with the Sierra Leonean rebel movement, the Revolutionary United Force (RUF), was one that went back to his own country's civil war, and one that was both documented and known, Monie Captan, Foreign Minister of Liberia, told correspondents at a headquarters press conference today.

PRESS BRIEFING BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR, A.I.

Over the past two years, a combination of drought, snow, cold and ice had created the most severe weather conditions in Mongolia in 60 years, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, a.i., Carolyn McAskie, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN CHILDREN’S FUND

"When UNICEF comes into a village, hope comes into a village", Mia Farrow, award-winning actress and Special Representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference reporting on the launch last Saturday of a countrywide polio vaccination campaign in Nigeria.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS

"Africa is bleeding from the humanitarian toll inflicted by small arms", a representative of Nigeria to the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects told correspondents this afternoon at a press conference organized by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and sponsored by the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF SOMALIA

      Somali Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galayr said today that his country would like a United Nations peace-building mission to help in the demobilization process of militia groups, because it did not have the necessary resources to tackle the problem alone.