Description Date Press Conference by Ms. Patricia Olamendi, Deputy Secretary for Global Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico and Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime 11 December Press Briefing- with Mr. Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, Ex-Procuador de Justicia, Trinidad & Tobago; Eva Joyce, Asesora Especial Noruega; Daniel Kauffman, Banco Mundial and Tim Wall, United Nations Department of Public Information 10 December Press briefing – Mr. Hans Corell, Representative of the U.N Secretary-General/Chief, Legal Counsel, United Nations Hqtrs. Part 1 Part 2 09 December Statement to the media by the Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Merida Signing Conference -English text -Spanish text 09 December 2003   Scene Setter of Merida and the Conference Centre with 2 minute sound byte with Dimitri Vlassis, Secretary of the Conference (20 minutes) 08 December 2003  Press Conference by Mr. Eduardo Vetere, Director, Division for Treaty Affairs, United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC, Vienna); Mr. Dimitri Vlassis, Secretary of the Conference, Ernesto Cespedes, Relaciones Exteriores, and Tim Wall, UN Department of Public Information, to brief journalists on the upcoming Convention Against Corruption, which will officially open tomorrow, 9 December 2003   (30 minutes) 08 December 2003