The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) urgently needed international police officers, the UNMIK Police Commissioner told correspondents at a headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
"The Role of Information Technology in the Knowledge-Based Economy" would be the special topic of the high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council this year, the newly-elected President of the Council, Makarim Wibisono (Indonesia), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
A new United Nations Web site, which aims to advocate for business sector involvement in human rights, environment and labour matters, would be launched today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, journalists were told today at a United Nations Headquarters briefing.
Returning children to school was the primary focus of the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) in East Timor, Executive Director Carol Bellamy told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The United Nations should lend its authority to supporting a rules-based open system of international trade and investment, while opposing all forms of protectionism, Adnan Kassar, President of the International Chamber of Commerce, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
The Security Council meeting on Africa had reaffirmed the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement as the basis for solving the Great Lakes crisis, Pasteur Bizimungu, the President of Rwanda, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
Today in Geneva consensus was reached on raising the minimum age for military recruitment and participation in armed conflict, after years of negotiation, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara A. Otunnu, told journalists at a Headquarters press briefing today.
