PRESS BRIEFING BY SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOMALIA

After nearly 10 years of chaos and fragmentation, progress had been made in Somalia, David Stephen, Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations office for Somalia, told correspondents this afternoon during a briefing at Headquarters.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNHCR

At a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, Ruud Lubbers, the newly appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), met with correspondents to discuss his briefing of the Security Council on the situation in Guinea. 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN CHILDREN’S FUND

WFP MAP THAT ILLUSTRATES GEOGRAPHY OF UNDERNOURISHMENT LAUNCHED TODAY

A new map, that uses colour to illustrate relative levels of undernourishment throughout the world, was launched by World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Catherine Bertini, at a Headquarters press conference this morning.  The map is called the "World Hunger Map". 

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PRESS BRIEFING BY KOSOVO SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

"My goal is to get Kosovo away from the headlines, but at the same time to keep the international community interested in what is going on in there", Hans Haekkerup, recently appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY OBSERVER FOR PALESTINE

It was regrettable that the Security Council had failed to adopt a draft resolution that would have established a new United Nations presence in the occupied territories at its meeting on 18 December, the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Nasser Al-Kidwa, told journalists at a Headquarters press conference today

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO FOREIGN MINISTER

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Leonard She Okitundu, told correspondents at a Headquarters' press conference this afternoon that a consensus was emerging within his country against the aggression by Uganda and Rwanda.

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UNFPA BRIEFING ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA

Women’s oppression in South Asia went beyond religion, class or caste, and was so ingrained through tradition and culture that only a determined political effort and high-level commitment would make a difference, correspondents were told this morning at a Headquarters press briefing, on the release of a report on the gender issue in that region.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY CO-CHAIR OF UN PREPARATORY COMMITTEE, FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

How developing countries could attract more of the enormous existing flows of international capital was the focus of the Financing for Development process, Ambassador Jorgen Bojer of Denmark, Co-Chair of the United Nations Preparatory Committee for that process, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The number of countries ratifying the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court had tripled to 24 in a few months, the Chairman of the Court’s Preparatory Commission told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon, as the Commission concluded a two-week session.