The United Nations Web site had undergone a dramatic facelift, the Chief of Information Technology in the Department of Public Information, Mahbub Ahmad, told correspondents at the launching of the redesigned United Nations Web site at a Headquarters press briefing Friday afternoon, 1 September.
With international attention focused on the United Nations on the eve of an unprecedented gathering of world leaders, it was extremely regrettable that the United States had blocked participation of a delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Li Hyong Chol, Permanent Representative of that country, told correspondents this afternoon.
Kamalesh Sharma, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, met with correspondents this morning at a Headquarters briefing to launch and discuss Imagining Tomorrow: Rethinking the Global Challenge, a book he edited and coordinated.
The Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Avraham Burg, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that, because of current efforts in the peace process, the timing of this weeks Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments was crucial for the Israeli delegation.
Although President Laurent Kabila had agreed to the deployment of United Nations troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, implementation might be delayed by his rejection of participation by South African specialized units, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for that country, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
Addressing correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mustafa Ceric, said that although peace did exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was not yet satisfied with the situation of Muslims in the area.
