At a Headquarters press conference today, the Director of Communications and Education of Oxfam America, Peggy Connolly, told correspondents that she feared the agreements that would be reached at the Education for All Conference beginning today in Dakar, Senegal, would be long on principles and short on practical solutions and financing mechanisms.
The basic goal of the United States in the current Review Conference of the Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was that the Treaty should emerge stronger, Norman Wulf, Special Representative of the United States President for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, told a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was better than it had been in the recent past, Kamel Morjane, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, told journalists at a press briefing at United Nations Headquarters today.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, as well as Russia and China, with their overwhelming military superiority, should initiate action to implement the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Matt Robson, New Zealand's Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The Secretary-General's Panel on Information Technology had been working to transform the digital divide into a digital dividend by giving connectivity to the 80 per cent of the world's population that still lacked it, the group's Chairman said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
Mongolia was facing its worst natural disaster ever, the Minister for Foreign Relations of Mongolia, Nyam-Osoryn Tuya, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning. Also present at the press conference was the Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan.
There were very encouraging signs of a strong recovery of world trade and a fairly strong continued growth pattern for most areas in the world, Professor Peter Pauly of the University of Toronto told a press briefing at United Nations Headquarters this morning.
