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.
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.
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.
At a Headquarters press conference Wednesday, several organizations provided correspondents with details on the plans to welcome and accommodate the thousands of citizens groups from around the world who would be attending the five-year review of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995), which will take place at Headquarters in June.
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.
The campaign to remove the seat of the Holy See at the United Nations is about abortion not religion, correspondents were told this morning at a Headquarters press conference given by a coalition of religious and civic non- governmental organizations. The press conference was sponsored by the United States Mission.
