At a Headquarters press briefing this morning, Makha Sarr, Director of the Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and Least Developed Countries, introduced the 1997 Report on the Least Developed Countries, a publication of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, began today's press briefing by telling correspondents that the Secretary-General's appointments schedule included five Presidents or Prime Ministers, and a dozen Ministers, mostly of Foreign Affairs.
At a Headquarters press conference this morning, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said he was deeply concerned about a British nurse who had been sentenced to 500 lashes for murder in Saudi Arabia earlier today.
At a press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Grenada this morning, the Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Simon Molina Duarte, said that the Association was working on a regional collaborative effort to tackle natural disasters such as the recent volcano eruption in Montserrat.
