One final conclusion shared by all members of the panel on the protection of United Nations staff and locally recruited and associated personnel was the need to expand resources in the area of safety and security, to increase funding for the programmes already in existence and to constantly review and revitalize them, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference yesterday.
While welcoming the recent elections in Haiti, the Secretary-General has expressed disquiet about the arrests of candidates and activists associated with the opposition parties since the 21 May vote, according to a statement read out at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon by Manuel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman to the Secretary-General.
Voices from War Zones: Women Speak Out
The Serb population of Kosovo had totally condemned everything that had happened to Kosovo Albanians under repression by President Slobodan Milosevic's regime and during the subsequent Allied bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia last year, the head of a Kosovo Serb delegation to the United Nations said at a Heaquarters press conference on Friday.
Despite the lateness of the hour, negotiations were ongoing as delegations attempted to reach consensus on an outcome document for the General Assembly special session on women, the Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women told correspondents in a question-and-answer session following today's noon briefing at Headquarters.
Modest progress had been made in Kosovo since the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) a year ago, Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
