At a Headquarters press briefing today, the Director of the Asia and Pacific Division of the Department of Political Affairs, Francesc Vendrell, said that by the middle of June the entire United Nations mission should be deployed in East Timor.
At a Headquarters press briefing today, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sergio Vieira de Mello, told correspondents that the humanitarian mission to Kosovo proposed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be a humanitarian needs assessment that would look at the short- and medium-term needs.
At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, background information was provided on the World Conference on Science, which has been organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Council for Science and will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 26 June to 1 July.
Return would be the best solution, Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing on the refugee situation around Kosovo.
While the world was not in fine economic shape, it was not falling uncontrollably, and some Asian and Latin American economies were starting to recover, Lawrence Klein, Nobel Laureate in economics and Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
