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.
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.
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.
"Whoever pretends and claims that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is improving is painting a rosy picture and is trying to colour the real situation", Vladislav Jovanovic, Chargé d'Affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today
ON PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL COMPACT
The regional context must be favourable for the peace process in Burundi to be successful -- and the current situation was not conducive, Marc Nteturuye, Burundis Permanent Representative to the United Nations told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference.
