If every American citizen would pay just $7, an amount less than the cost of attending a movie, the United States would be able to pay its arrears to the United Nations, James Paul, Executive Director of the Global Policy Forum, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
With multi-party elections taking place for the first time in 51 countries between 1988 and 1998, some people had spoken of a new age of democracy. But the real question, according to Bengt Save-Soderbergh, Secretary-General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, was whether this new impetus towards elections would last.
Michael Zammit-Cutajar, Executive Secretary, secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning that the Fourth Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, to be held from 2 to 13 November, would be the first in the convention process to be held in a developing country.
With multi-party elections taking place for the first time in 51 countries between 1988 and 1998, some people had spoken of a new age of democracy. But the real question, according to Bengt Save-Soderbergh, Secretary-General of the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, was whether this new impetus towards elections would last.
The continued use of children in hostilities and a growth in the numbers of children being displaced were among the greatest concerns in the arena of his work, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu, said in a Headquarters press briefing on Wednesday.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was vitally interested in seeing a speedy end to the crisis in Kosovo and a lasting political settlement, the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vladislav Jovanovic, said today at a Headquarters press conference.
The results of a three-year series of conferences, carried out by the Harvard Project on Religion and Ecology, were presented Tuesday at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Newly appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Geri Halliwell (a.k.a. "Ginger Spice" of the Spice Girls) told a United Nations press conference this morning that she had long been known as the "evangelist of women's empowerment". She had always been outspoken and had fought for the underdog, she said.
The deepening economic crisis and poor prospects for world growth were a severe setback for poverty reduction efforts, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, entitled Overcoming Human Poverty, which was released today.
