The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) declared Dr. Bertrand Piccard, the around-the-world balloonist, its Goodwill Ambassador for Switzerland, at a United Nations Headquarters press briefing today.
At the moment, the main threat to relief workers and civilians in Angola was landmines, Agnes Asekenye-Oonyu, Chief of the Africa Section, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.
The Sierra Leone peace process is at a very critical juncture, with the parties slow to implement its various parts, Carolyn McAskie, Deputy Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. However, it was now starting to move forward.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
Good afternoon.
The greatest obstacles to implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child are States' lack of resources, peace and security issues, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to the Deputy Director of Programmes for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"The ends of justice are not served by penalizing once again the people of Rwanda for the shortcomings of a United Nations prosecutor", Joseph W. Mutaboba, Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The new Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda told correspondents this afternoon that her task was daunting and required the continued support of the Security Council and the international community.
At a Headquarters' press briefing this afternoon, Bill Paton, United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for the Republic of the Congo, spoke of the grave humanitarian crisis the country faced and efforts of United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations to help the affected people.
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, and Shirley Brownell, Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly.
Briefing by Spokesman for Secretary-General
