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PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL FORUM ON FORESTS

At a Headquarters press conference this morning, the co-Chairman of the Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF), Bagher Asadi of Iran, said that significant progress had been achieved during the session, which began on 31 January and is scheduled to conclude later today. Also speaking at the briefing was Jagmohan Maini, a coordinator of the IFF Secretariat.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY NGOS PARTICIPATING IN INTERGOVERNMENTAL FORUM ON FORESTS

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PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Marie Okabe, Associate Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF ARGENTINA

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Host countries must be responsible for the security of humanitarian workers and must punish the perpetrators of crimes against humanitarian workers, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Catherine Bertini, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN POPULATION FUND

Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe 1999, who has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for Botswana, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning that she hoped to use the position to promote the rights of women and youth to information on family planning and to receive proper sexual and reproductive health care and services.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNICEF REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

Armed conflict and the HIV/AIDS pandemic had made sub-Saharan Africa the only region in which the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was working where the conditions of children had continued to get worse over the past 10 years, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Urban Jonsson, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS LEGAL COUNSEL

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PRESS BRIEFING ON TENTH UN CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

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PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

The recently-elected President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Claude Jorda, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that the purpose of his visit to New York was to discuss the future of the Tribunal, as well as a possible timetable for its reform.