At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations questioned the Security Council's sincerity about deploying peacekeeping troops in his country.
The President of the Security Council during March, Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (Bangladesh), at a Headquarters press conference Friday afternoon told correspondents that during his presidency he had two objectives: to make the Council more open, transparent and widely participative by a larger membership of the United Nations; and to make the Council more proactive.
Faced with a drought equivalent to the one that ravaged the Horn of Africa 15 years ago, the Secretary-General had appointed Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as his Special Envoy on the drought in the region, Carolyn McAskie, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator a.i., said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
Faced with a drought equivalent to the one that ravaged the Horn of Africa 15 years ago, the Secretary-General had appointed Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as his Special Envoy on the drought in the region, Carolyn McAskie, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The United Nations had taken a step back from the financial brink in 1999, the Under-Secretary-General for Management, Joseph E. Connor, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The United Nations should establish a tribunal to investigate "massacres" committed by United States troops during the Korean War, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Li Hyong Chol, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Launching the report, Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?, Joseph Chamie, Director of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, discussed the viability of international migration as a solution to population decline and population ageing in developed countries, at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.
Allegations of Rwandan collaboration with the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) were merely hearsay generated by those interested in distorting the facts for their own reasons, Rwanda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
