More "political horsepower" was needed behind negotiations to strengthen and enhance the biological weapons Convention, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand, Donald McKinnon, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.
At a Headquarters press conference this morning, the Foreign Minister of Italy, Lamberto Dini, called for a fundamental review of financial institutions and the international financial architecture that governed the development of the global market.
For the first time, guerilla leaders in Colombia had made a commitment to eradicate illicit drug crops, the country's President, Andrés Pastrana Arango, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
Although Africa was now torn by more conflicts than at any time before, the continent had never been so free in terms of controlling its own destiny and stability, President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
At a Headquarters press conference this morning, Pierre Buyoya, President of Burundi, appealed to the international community to lift the "illegal and unjust" sanctions imposed on his country in 1996. The sanctions constrained the most vulnerable people and posed the greatest threat to the peace process in Burundi.
Americans overwhelmingly supported the United Nations and the job it was doing, John C. Whitehead, Chairman of the Board of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA/USA), told a Headquarters press conference this morning.
The world had taken a major step towards becoming a safer and more humane place, the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Choi Young-Jin, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
