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Spokesperson21 November 2008
By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Spokesperson20 November 2008
By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.

Spokesperson19 November 2008
By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.

Spokesperson18 November 2008
By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Spokesperson17 November 2008
By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

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Aira Kalela, Head of International Affairs at the Ministry of the Environment of Finland; Janet Macharia, Senior Gender Advisor at the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP); and Liane Schalatek, Associate Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in North America20 November 2008
Aira Kalela, Head of International Affairs at the Ministry of the Environment of Finland; Janet Macharia, Senior Gender Advisor at the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP); and Liane Schalatek, Associate Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in North America, to brief on issues relating to gender and climate change.

Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant' Agata, Permanent Representative of Italy to the U.N.; Saad Houry, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF; and former child soldiers and youth advocates Ismael Beah, Grace Akallo, and Kon Kelei20 November 2008
Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant' Agata, Permanent Representative of Italy to the U.N.; Saad Houry, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF; and former child soldiers and youth advocates Ismael Beah, Grace Akallo, and Kon Kelei to launch a new global network of children formerly affected by war.

Esteban Conejos Jr., Under-Secretary for Migrant Workers' Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines; and Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)20 November 2008
Esteban Conejos Jr., Under-Secretary for Migrant Workers' Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines; and Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), to provide an update on global migration, review this year's Global Forum on Migration and Development in Manila and discuss next year's Forum in Athens.

Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)18 November 2008
Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the situation in the DRC via video link from Kinshasa.

Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann17 November 2008
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann to brief following Mr. Morales’ address to the General Assembly.

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H.E. Mr. Jorge Urbina7 November 2008
Press statement by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica, H.E. Mr. Jorge Urbina on the situation in Nepal and informal comments to the media on other matters.

H.E. Mr. Jorge Urbina6 November 2008
Informal comments to the media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica, H.E. Mr. Jorge Urbina, on the election of five members of the International Court of Justice.

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon5 November 2008
H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations on the outcome of the United States Presidential Election.

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon3 November 2008
H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations following his Asian trip.

H.E. Sir John Sawers31 October 2008
Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the arms trade treaty and the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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