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.
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.
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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.
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.
Reproductive and sexual health and rights were essential to womens equality and to the overall development and health of nations, a group of non-governmental organizations told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference held to call upon governments to face those issues head on.
