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2008 Archived Webcasts of Press Conferences

31 December 08

Press Conference: Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) via video-link from Gaza, and John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 43 minutes ]

18 December 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, Permanent Representative of South Africa, to hold a year-end press conference wrapping up South Africa's current membership in the Security Council.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 58 minutes ]

17 December 08

Press Conference: Daniel Bellemare, Commissioner of the International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) for Lebanon, to brief following Security Council consultations on the IIIC.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 43 minutes ]

17 December 08

Press Conference: Georg Kell, Executive Director of the U.N. Global Compact Office, to discuss current trends and developments in the corporate responsibility arena, particularly in the context of the financial crisis and the subsequent economic downturn.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 26 minutes ]

17 December 08

Press Conference: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to hold a year-end press conference.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour ]

15 December 08

Press Conference: Principals of the Middle East Quartet - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union Javier Solana and European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 27 minutes ]

12 December 08

Press Conference: Jason Stearns, Coordinator of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 32 minutes ]

12 December 08

Press Conference: U.N. Messenger of Peace Daniel Barenboim to discuss the upcoming Human Rights Day concert (15 December), the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and his work as a Messenger of Peace.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 21 minutes ]

10 December 08

Press Conference: New recipients of U.N. Prize in the Field of Human Rights to brief in connection with the commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 50 minutes ]

10 December 08

Press Conference: Austin Ruse from Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute; Wendy Wright from Concerned Women for America; Noelia Garcia Ayuele from the Institute for Family Policy; Laura Knaperack from United Families International; Pawel Wosicki from Polish Federation of Pro-Life Groups; Carlo Casini, Member of the European Parliament; and Marthe De Casco, Member of the Honduran Parliament, to brief on Presentation of Petition for the Unborn Child [Facilitated by the U.S. Mission].
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 38 minutes ]

9 December 08

Press Conference: Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, to launch a report entitled Eleanor's Dream: How to Strengthen the U.N. Human Rights Council [Sponsored by the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs/ NGO Section].
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 41 minutes ]

9 December 08

Press Conference: Craig Mokhiber from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Steven Kull, Director of WorldPublicOpinion.org; and Peggy Hicks, Global Advocacy Director from Human Rights Watch, to launch the World Public Opinion and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reports.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 9 minutes ]

9 December 08

Press Conference: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to brief on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be observed on 10 December.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 48 minutes ]

9 December 08

Press Conference: General Assembly President Miguel D¡äEscoto Brockmann and Maude Barlow, an advisor to the General Assembly President on water issues, to brief on issues relating to human rights and water.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 33 minutes ]

9 December 08

Press Conference: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, both Co-Chairs of the U.S. Task Force on Genocide, to brief on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [Sponsored by the U.S. Mission]
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 33 minutes ]

5 December 08

Press Conference: Manuel Escudero, Special Adviser to the U.N. Global Compact; John Fernandes, President of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International); Judith Samuelson, Director of the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program; and Liz Maw, Executive Director of Net Impact, to brief on the first Global Forum for Responsible Management Education.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 40 minutes ]

4 December 08

Press Conference: Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, and Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, to brief on the Secretary-General¡¯s strategy and engagement at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland and during next year, leading up to the conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 29 minutes ]

3 December 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein, and Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on the Court's recent report on the situation in Darfur.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 42 minutes ]

2 December 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Neven Jurica, Permanent Representative of Croatia and President of the Security Council for December, to brief on the Council's programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 33 minutes ]

1 December 08

Press Conference: Jimmy Kolker, Chief of the HIV and AIDS section at UNICEF; Bertil Lindblad, Director of the UNAIDS Office in New York; Andrey Pirogov, Executive Director of the World Health Organization office in New York; Steven Kraus, Chief of HIV and AIDS section at UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund); and Joan Laporta, President of the Futbol Club Barcelona, present the Third Stocktaking Report on children and mothers affected by HIV and AIDS.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 44 minutes ]

26 November 08

Press Conference: Catherine Braggs, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to brief on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 26 minutes ]

26 November 08

Press Conference: Oxfam, Refugees International, WorldVision, and Human Rights Watch on the humanitarian emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 40 minutes ]

25 November 08

Press Conference: Riyadh Al-Malki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority, to brief on the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as well as peace process and negotiations with the government of Israel.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 50 minutes ]

25 November 08

Press Conference: Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the General Assembly; as well as Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz, Permanent Representative of Egypt; and Ambassador Johan Løvald, Special Envoy for Financing for Development in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - both Co-facilitators of the draft outcome document for the Financing for Development Review Conference - to brief on the Conference to take place in Doha.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 42 minutes ]

24 November 08

Press Conference: Kemal Dervis, U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator; Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development; and Oscar de Rojas, Executive Secretary of the upcoming Financing for Development Review Conference, to discuss the Conference and the Secretary-General's high-level retreat on the global financial crisis to take place in Doha
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 53 minutes ]

21 November 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Jorge Valero Briceño, Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the U.N., will be joined by other speakers to announce a new draft resolution, "The World Economic and Financial Crisis and its Consequences" (A/63/L.22), co-sponsored by the Group of 77 + China.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 38 minutes ]

20 November 08

Press Conference: 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.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 38 minutes ]

20 November 08

Press Conference: 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.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 58 minutes ]

20 November 08

Press Conference: 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.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 51 minutes ]

18 November 08

Press Conference: 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.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 57 minutes ]

17 November 08

Press Conference: Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann to brief following Mr. Morales’ address to the General Assembly.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 45 minutes ]

17 November 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Irakli Alasania of Georgia to brief on the situation in Georgia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 31 minutes ]

17 November 08

Press Conference: Academy Award-winning actress and activist Charlize Theron to be formally introduced as a U.N. Messenger of Peace.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 28 minutes ]

14 November 08

Press Conference: Nigerian film producer Patience Ozokwo and actors, Ini Edo, Zack Orji and Regina Askia, on the a film titled "Deeper Than Sex", which promotes awareness of health issues such as HIV and AIDS.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 15 minutes ]

13 November 08

Press Conference: Joint press conference by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, on the General Assembly meeting on Culture of Peace.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 33 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 33 minutes ]

12 November 08

Press Conference: Aminata Touré, Chief of the Culture, Gender and Human Rights Branch of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) on UNFPA’s State of the World Population 2008 report.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 13 minutes ]

12 November 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Shimon Peres, President of Israel; H.E. Ms. Tzipi Livni, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel; and Ambassador Gabriela Shalev of Israel to brief on the General Assembly meeting on Culture of Peace.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]

11 November 08

Press Conference: Juliette Prodhan, Oxfam aid worker based in Goma (by teleconference); Fabienne Hara, Vice President, International Crisis Group; and Steve Crawshaw, U.N. Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch, on the situation in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 58 minutes ]

11 November 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the General Assembly, on the upcoming High-Level Meeting on the Culture of Peace.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 48 minutes ]

11 November 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General holds the second of his regularly-scheduled monthly press conference.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 52 minutes ]

4 November 08

Press Conference: Mr. Githu Muigai, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

4 November 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Jorge Urbina, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica and President of the Security Council for November, on the Council's programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 35 minutes ]

3 November 08

Press Conference: Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Alan Doss to brief via videoconference link from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 41 minutes ]

30 October 08

Press Conference: General Assembly President, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, will be joined by other speakers, to brief on the General Assembly’s debate on the global financial crisis.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

30 October 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev of Ukraine to brief on the initiatives introduced by Ukraine to the 63rd session of the General Assembly.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]

29 October 08

Press Conference: Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), on how the UNCCD constitutes a systemic and worldwide response to global environmental challenges.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

28 October 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of the Russian Federation, to brief on the current issues of the 63rd session of the General Assembly.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

27 October 08

Press Conference: Olivier de Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]

27 October 08

Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, will brief on the situation in Haiti.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 26 minutes ]

27 October 08

Press Conference: Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, and Eduardo Lopez Moreno, Director of UN-HABITAT’s City Monitoring Branch, to brief on UN-HABITAT’s State of the World’s Cities Report 2008/9: Harmonious Cities.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]

24 October 08

Press Conference: Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 44 minutes ]

24 October 08

Press Conference: Sergio Duarte, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs; Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. and an expert on weapons of mass destruction; Max Kampelman, Former Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms; Ved Malik, Former Chief of Army Staff of India; and John Mroz, President of the EastWest Institute, to brief on a new initiative to break the logjam on nuclear non-proliferation.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

24 October 08

Press Conference: Manfred Nowak, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 50 minutes ]

23 October 08

Press Conference: Vitit Muntarbhorn, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

23 October 08

Press Conference: Tomas Ojea Quintana, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]

23 October 08

Press Conference: Donville Inniss, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business of Barbados; and Luis Fernando Andrade Falla, Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States, to brief on the work of the Association to designate the Caribbean Sea as a Special Area in the context of sustainable development.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 48 minutes ]

22 October 08

Press Conference: Martin Scheinin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

22 October 08

Press Conference: Kemal Dervis, U.N. Development Programme's (UNDP) Administrator, to hold a press conference to launch UNDP's report entitled "Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity"
[Webcast: Archived Video - 55 minutes ]

17 October 08

Press Conference: Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, UN Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty; and Nina Lim Yuson, President of International Movement ATD Fourth World on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

10 October 08

Press Conference: Hédi Annabi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), to provide an update on the situation in Haiti.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]

8 October 08

Press Conference: Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister of Serbia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

7 October 08

Press Conference: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes to brief ahead of the International Day for Disaster Reduction (8 October).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 15 minutes ]

7 October 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General holds the first of his regularly-scheduled monthly press conference.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 57 minutes ]

3 October 08

Press Conference: Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

3 October 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Zhang Yesui, Permanent Representative of China and President of the Security Council for October, on the Council's programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 25 minutes ]

3 October 08

Press Conference: General Assembly President, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, to provide a wrap-up of the General Debate.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

2 October 08

Press Conference: Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States;  Antonio Juan Sosa from Corporación Andina de Fomento; Robert Schoellhammer from the Asian Development Bank; and Hachim Koumare from the Board of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP), to brief on the High-level Plenary Mid-term Review of the Almaty Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]

29 September 08

Press Conference: Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russia Federation to hold a press conference on the outcome of the General Debate.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 43 minutes ]

26 September 08

Press Conference: Joint Press Conference by the Middle East Quartet – Secretary-General; Ms. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State; Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia; Mr. Bernard Kouchner, Foreign Minister of France; Mr. Javier Solana, High Representative for European Common Foreign and Security Policy; Ms. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations; and Mr. Tony Blair, Quartet Representative.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]

  • Statement by Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
    [Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]
26 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Dimitris Christofias, President of Cyprus.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 43 minutes ]

25 September 08

Press Conference: Secretary-General to hold a joint press conference with Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania; Mr. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Mr. Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the Millennium Development Goals High-level Event.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]

  • Statement by Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
    [Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]
25 September 08

Press Conference:  H.E. Mr. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

25 September 08

Press Conference: Winston Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of G-77; Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the General Assembly; and Ambassador Francis Lorenzo of the Dominican Republic will brief on the 2008 U.N. MDG Achievement Award.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 19 minutes ]

25 September 08

Press Conference: Mr. Peter Power, Minister of State for Overseas Development of Ireland; Mr. Joe Walsh, Chairman of the Irish Hunger Task Force, Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University; and Ms. Sheila Sisulu, Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) to brief on the Irish Hunger Task Force.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 25 minutes ]

25 September 08

Press Conference: Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway; Mr. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Mr. Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank; Ms. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization; and Mr. Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to present a global plan to save 10 million mothers and children by 2015.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 46 minutes ]

24 September 08

Press Conference: Secretary-General to hold a joint press conference with Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director, U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP); Mr. Kemal Dervis, Administrator of U.N. Development Programme (UNDP); and Mr. Jacques Diouf, Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to launch a new initiative to reduce emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 44 minutes ]

24 September 08

Press Conference: The Secretary-General holds a joint press conference with the Troika leaders of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland; Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark; and Hassan Wirajuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

24 September 08

Press Conference: Ms. Ursula Plassnik, Foreign Minister of Austria; Stephen Smith, Foreign Minister of Australia; Mr. Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Foreign Minister of Costa Rica; Mr. Michael Douglas, U.N. Messenger of Peace and actor; Mr. William Perry, Former US Defence Secretary; Mr. Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Secretariat to brief on the Ministerial Meeting in Support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 28 minutes ]

24 September 08

Press Conference: Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda; Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania; Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda; Sandra Torres de Colom, First Lady of Guatemala; Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme; Howard G. Buffett, Chairman of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation; and Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to launch a joint initiative to empower small farmers.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 58 minutes ]

24 September 08

Press Conference: Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization; Achim Steiner, Executive Director, U.N. Environment Programme; Guy Ryder, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation; and Ronnie Goldberg, Vice President, International Organisation of Employers, launch a study entitled Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]

23 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 54 minutes ]

23 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 4 minutes ]

23 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Ms. Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, and H.E. Mr. Alexander Stubb, Foreign Minister of Finland.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 28 minutes ]

23 September 08

Press Conference: Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Foreign Minister of Iceland, and H.E. Mr. Hjalmar W. Hannesson, Permanent Representative of Iceland, to brief on Iceland's new fund for the Island Growth Initiative.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

23 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 27 minutes ]

22 September 08

Press Conference: Mr. Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister; Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre, Foreign Minister of Norway and Co-chair of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC); and Mr. Tony Blair, Middle East Quartet Representative to brief on the Palestinian Donor Conference.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]

22 September 08

Press Conference: Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania and Chairperson of the African Union (AU), and Mr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank to brief on the High-level meeting of the General Assembly on Africa's development needs.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]

22 September 08

Press Conference: Mr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]

22 September 08

Press Conference: Mary Robinson, Chair of Realising Rights: Ethical Global Initiative; Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization; Ela Bhatt from the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India and a member of The Elders; Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO of Ericsson; and José Antonio Ocampo from Columbia University brief on “Working out of Poverty: A Decent Work Approach to Development and the Millennium Development Goals”.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 42 minutes ]

19 September 08

Press Conference: Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of the U.N. University (UNU) Office in New York; Patrick Stover, Director of the UNU Food and Nutrition Programme;  Per Pinstrup-Andersen and David Sahn from Cornell University to brief on the UNU-Cornell Africa Series.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour ]

19 September 08

Press Conference: Salih Mahmoud Osman, MP, Sudan National Assembly; Osman Hummaida, human rights researcher from Sudan; Richard Dicker, Director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch; Bill Pace, Convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) to brief on current developments relating to the ICC’s investigation in Darfur and the role of the Security Council.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 54 minutes ]

18 September 08

Press Conference: Patricia O'Brien, U.N. Legal Counsel; Ngonlardje Mbaidjol, Director of the New York Office of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Clarissa Brocklehurst from UNICEF, to brief on the upcoming 2008 Treaty Event.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

18 September 08

Press Conference: Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General and U.N. Special Adviser on Africa, to brief on the key development issues facing Africa and its international partners as well as preview the goals of the 22 September General Assembly high-level meeting on Africa’s development needs.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]

18 September 08

Press Conference: Ines Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM; Anne-Marie Goetz from UNIFEM; Christiana Thorpe, Electoral Commissioner from Sierra Leone, and Shankar Singh,  activist from India’s Right to Information Movement to launch UNIFEM’s Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 42 minutes ]

17 September 08

Press Conference: Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General of Public Information (DPI); Eric Falt, Director of the Outreach Division, DPI; Gillian Sorensen, Senior Advisor at U.N. Foundation; Pera Wells, Secretary-General of World Federation of U.N. Associations, and Anthony Torbay, former Model U.N. delegate, to launch the Global Model U.N. conference.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 28 minutes ]

16 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (Nicaragua), President of the sixty-third session of the General Assembly on the opening of the sixty-third session of the General Assembly.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

16 September 08

Press Conference: Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General and U.N. Special Adviser on Africa; Maged Shawky, President of the African Securities Association; and Marilou Uy from the World Bank is joined by other speakers to launch the Socially Responsible Investment Index for Africa.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 34 minutes ]

16 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd session of the General Assembly gives a wrap-up press briefing on the work of the 62nd session.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 59 minutes ]

12 September 08

Press Conference: Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes, to brief on the humanitarian flash appeal for Haiti.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]

12 September 08

Press Conference: Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd Session of the General Assembly; Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan; Ambassador Francis Lorenzo of the Dominican Republic; Ambassador Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy of Madagascar; and actor Danny Glover, on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals Awards 2009.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

11 September 08

Press Conference: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his priorities for the 63rd Session of the General Assembly and to launch the Millennium Development Goals Report 2008 (PDF).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 4 minutes ]

11 September 08

Press Conference: Sam Parnia, from the Weill Cornell Medical Center on the opening of the UN/ NGO symposium entitled “Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness”. [Website]
[Webcast: Archived Video - 21 minutes ]

10 September 08

Press Conference: Brian Mishara, President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and Werner Obermeyer, Senior External Relations Officer at the World Health Organization New York office, in observance of World Suicide Prevention Day.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 17 minutes ]

9 September 08

Media Stakeout: Ingrid Betancourt who is attending the U.N. Symposium on "Supporting Victims of Terrorism".
[Webcast: Archived Video - 26 minutes ] (In English, Spanish and French)

9 September 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, is joined by terrorism victims representatives: Mr. Ashraf Al-Khaled, Ms. Ingrid Betancourt, Mr. Chris Cramer and Ms. Laura Dolci (on the symposium on “Supporting Victims of Terrorism”).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 9 minutes ]

8 September 08

Press Conference: Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of the U.N. University (UNU) Office in New York and other speakers to brief on UNU-Cornell Africa Series symposium on "The Social and Economic Dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa".
[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]

8 September 08

Press Conference: Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General and Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, to brief on the Secretary-General's Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour ]

5 September 08

Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to brief on the humanitarian situation in areas in the Caribbean, South Asia and West Africa affected by recent storms and floods.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

4 September 08

Press Conference: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Ad Melkert of U.N. Development Programme (UNDP); and Rob Vos from the Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) to hold a press conference to launch the report of the MDG Gap Task Force.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 7 minutes ]

3 September 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Michel Kafando, Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso and President of the Security Council for September, briefs on the Council's programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

26 August 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Irakli Alasania of Georgia on the situation in Georgia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

26 August 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of the Russian Federation.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 35 minutes ]

19 August 08

Press Conference: Under-Secretary-General for Public Information, Kiyotaka Akasaka, and Chair of the 61st DPI/ NGO Conference, Shamina de Gonzaga, on the upcoming 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference (3-5 September 2008, UNESCO, Paris).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 28 minutes ]

15 August 08

Press Conference: Foreign Minister of Serbia, Vuk Jeremić, on Serbia's intentions vis-à-vis the International Court of Justice and the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

14 August 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Irakli Alasania of Georgia to brief on the situation in Georgia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

4 August 08

Press Conference: Briefing by H.E. Mr. Jan Grauls, Permanent Representative of Belgium and President of the Security Council for the month of August, on the programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]

30 July 08

Press Conference: Michael Adlerstein, Executive Director of the Capital Master Plan (CMP), to brief on a new U.N. in-house climate change initiative.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]

29 July 08

Press Conference: Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to launch the Programme’s 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

17 July 08

Press Conference: By H.E. Mr. Le Luong Minh, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam, H.E. Mr. Pham Gia Khiem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam; Mr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflicts; and Ms. Krin Landgren, Associate Director for Child Protection, UNICEF, to brief journalists following the Security Council meeting on Children and Armed Conflict.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]

17 July 08

Press Conference: By the Permanent Mission of Suriname. Ruth Wijdenbosch, President of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee of Suriname, will brief on the internal process and discussions held in Suriname that led to the country’s accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 23 minutes ]

17 July 08

Press Conference: On the occasion of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Speakers: ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo; Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, and current President of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC; and Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the UN, and President-elect of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]

16 July 08

Press Conference: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes will brief the press on the Mid-Year Review of the Humanitarian Appeal 2008.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]

14 July 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Jürg Streuli of Switzerland, Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, launches the “Small Arms Survey 2008: Risk and Resilience”.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]

10 July 08

Press Conference: Mr. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 24 minutes ]

10 July 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General briefs the press following his trip to Asia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]

9 July 08

Press Conference: General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim on his activities, recent developments related to the work of the Assembly’s 62nd session, and upcoming events.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]

2 July 08

Press Conference: Briefing by H.E. Mr. Le Luong Minh, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam and President of the Security Council for the month of July, on the programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 24 minutes ]

2 July 08 Press Conference: Manouchehr Mottaki, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on Iran’s participation in the Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) High-level Segment.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 5 minutes ]
2 July 08 Press Conference: On the occasion of ECOSOC’s High-Level Segment, focusing on the 2008 Annual Ministerial Review (AMR). Representatives from countries that present their AMR National Voluntary Presentations speak about the progress they have made towards the goals and targets of the United Nations Development Agenda, as well as the challenges they are facing. Participants: Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs (Luxembourg); Peter Msola, Minister of Science, Technology and ICT (Tanzania); and Andrew Steer, Director General, Policy and Research, Department for International Development (United Kingdom).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 43 minutes ]
1 July 08 Press Conference: Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, presents The World Economic and Social Survey 2008: Overcoming Economic Insecurity.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]
1 July 08 Press Conference: Jean-Maurice Ripert, Permanent Representative of France, briefs on France’s priorities for its six-month presidency of the European Union, which begins today.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]
1 July 08 Press Conference: Léo Mérorès, President of ECOSOC; Liu Guijin, China’s Special Envoy on African Affairs; and George Gyan-Baffour, Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Finance, brief on the launch of the first ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum and on lessons learned in international development cooperation.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]
30 June 08 Press Conference: Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Lord Stern of Brentford, brief about their work in the area of sustainable development and the challenges they foresee.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 35 minutes ]
30 June 08 Press Conference: Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Chairman of the Independent Panel on Safety and Security of UN Personnel and Premises Worldwide, to brief on the Panel's report.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 41 minutes ]
30 June 08 Press Conference: Mr Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, briefs on his country visit to the United States which took place from 16 to 30 June 2008.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 50 minutes ]
27 June 08 Press Conference: Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, briefs on his activities during his first three months in office, as well as discussing the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics, and the activities of the UN in this regard.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 35 minutes ]
24 June 08 Press Conference: Prime Minister of Djibouti, Deleita Mohamed Deleita, and Djibouti’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, on peace and security in the Horn of Africa
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]
24 June 08 Press Conference: In advance of the International Day in support of Victims of Torture (26 June), Steven Kull of the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes; Yvonne Terlingen of Amnesty International; and Craig Mokhiber from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will brief on new survey data from the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll on the acceptance of the use of torture, racial discrimination, women’s rights, freedom of the press, democracy and governance.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 44 minutes ]
17 June 08 Press Conference: UN System Influenza Coordinator Dr. David Nabarro, to provide an update on avian influenza and pandemic preparedness.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 34 minutes ]
11 June 08 Press Conference: Rev. Johannes Petras Heath of the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Affected by HIV; Meena Seshu of SANGRAM; Robert Carr of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition; Laxmi Tripathi of the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers; and Stijn Goossein of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, to brief on issues of exclusion especially against people living with HIV and marginalized at risk populations.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 34 minutes ]
11 June 08 Press Conference: Ambassador Carsten Staur of Denmark and In¨¦s Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM, to brief on the "MDG3 Champion Torch", which symbolizes Denmark's global call to action on gender equality.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 26 minutes ]
10 June 08 Press Conference: General Assembly President, Srgjan Kerim; Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Ratri Suksma from the Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM) Asia, to brief on the General Assembly High-level Meeting on AIDS.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]
09 June 08 Press Conference: Kenneth Kaunda, former President of Zambia; Pascoal Mocumbi, Former Prime Minister of Mozambique; Joy Phumaphi from the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA); and Abdoulaye Bathily from the Cheikh Anta Diop University to brief on CHGA's report. entitled Securing our Future.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]
09 June 08 Press Conference: Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, and Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to present key findings on the global AIDS response.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]
09 June 08 Press Conference: General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim, and Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres, to brief on the General Assembly debate on Global Private Investment and Climate Change.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]
05 June 08 Press Conference: Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to brief following his meeting with the Security Council.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 17 minutes ]
05 June 08 Press Conference: Guanghua Wan, Senior Research Fellow at the UN University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and Terry Sicular from the University of Western Ontario, to brief on UNU-WIDER's new study entitled The Poverty- Growth-Inequality Triangle in China.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]
04 June 08 Press Conference: Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch; Niemat Ahmadi of Save Darfur Coalition; and William Pace of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), to brief on a new NGO initiative to bolster support for the ICC in Darfur.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]
04 June 08 Press Conference: President-elect of the 63rd Session of the General Assembly.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 41 minutes ]
03 June 08 Press Conference: Antonio Maria-Costa, Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime; Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration; and Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, to brief on the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 42 minutes ]
03 June 08 Press Conference: General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Anwar Gargash; and actress and philanthropist Ashley Judd, to brief on the General Assembly's thematic debate on human trafficking.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 26 minutes ]
03 June 08 Press Conference: Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State; Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy; and Naresh Singh, Executive Director of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, to discuss the Commission¡¯s new report entitled Making the Law Work for Everyone.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]
02 June 08 Press Conference: Kermal Dervis, UNDP Administrator, briefs the press on the Democratic Republic of Korea report.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]
30 May 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Michel Kafando of Burkina Faso; Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert of France; Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo of South Africa; and Ambassador John Sawers of the United Kingdom, on the upcoming Security Council trip to Africa.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

29 May 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Irakli Alasania of Georgia, to brief on Georgia's response to the recent report by the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) on last month's downing of a Georgian drone over Abkhazia, Georgia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 19 minutes ]

27 May 08

Press Conference: Jane Holl Lute, Assistant-Secretary-General for the Department of Field Support, to brief on reports of sexual violence against children.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

22 May 08

Press Conference: Srgjan Kerim, President of the General Assembly, and Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, to brief on the General Assembly’s thematic debate on  human security.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 24 minutes ]

22 May 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Jorge Arguello of Argentina; Ngonlardje Mbaidjol, Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Estela de Carlotto from Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo; and Academy Award-winning composer and human rights advocate, Gustavo A. Santaolalla, to brief on the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 24 minutes ]

20 May 08

Press Conference: Carolina Owens from the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict; Victoria Forbes Adam, Director of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; and Jo Becker from Human Rights Watch launch the Coalition’s latest Child Soldiers Global Report.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

15 May 08

Press Conference: Rob Vos, Director of the Development and Policy Analysis Division of the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), and author of ‘World Economic Situation and Prospects’ to present a mid-year update on this report. He will be accompanied by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 55 minutes ]

14 May 08

Press Conference: Pasquale Steduto from the FAO; David Molden from the International Water Management Institute; and Anders Berntell and Jan Lundqvist from the Stockholm International Water Institute, to discuss ways of curbing global food and water wastage.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]

13 May 08

Press Conference: Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), on UNEP’s Billion Tree Campaign.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

13 May 08

Press Conference: Kathleen Abdalla and Aslam Chaudhry from the Division for Sustainable Development and water expert Roberto Lenton on issues relating to water and sanitation.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

12 May 08

Press Conference: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to brief on the situation in Myanmar.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 52 minutes ]

12 May 08

Press Conference: Prince Ra’ad Bin Zeid of Jordan; Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico; Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs; Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Lex Grandia, Chairman of International Disability Alliance CRPD Forum, to brief on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]

9 May 08

Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, to brief on the launch of the Flash Appeal for Myanmar.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

9 May 08

Press Conference: Kathleen Abdalla and David O’Connor from the Division for Sustainable Development as well as Peter Hartmann from the  International Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria to brief on ideas for realizing the African agricultural potential.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

7 May 08

Press Conference: Eric Falt, Director of the Department of Public Information’s Outreach Division; Mia Hanak, Executive Director of the Natural World Museum; and internationally acclaimed artists such as Catharine Chalmers, Subhankar Banerjee and Cecilia Paredes to brief on DPI's upcoming Unlearning Intolerance Seminar on "Art Changing Attitudes toward the Environment".
[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]

6 May 08

Press Conference: Kathleen Abdalla and Aslam Chaudhry from the Division for Sustainable Development as well as John Pender from the International Food Policy Research Institute on issues relating to agriculture, drought and desertification.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 26 minutes ]

2 May 08

Press Conference: Briefing by H.E. Sir John Sawers, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of May, on the programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

2 May 08

Press Conference: Mr. Olivier De Schutter, new Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 42 minutes ]

1 May 08

Press Conference: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Simeon Adewale Adekanye and Lars Anders Baer, members of the Forum, to brief on the outcomes of the Forum's seventh session.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 34 minutes ]

1 May 08

Press Conference: Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians of Canada.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]

30 April 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo of South Africa, to provide, in his capacity as the President of the Security Council for April, a wrap-up of the Council's work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 33 minutes ]

30 April 08

Press Conference: Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), to hold a press conference to launch CPJ's Impunity Index, which ranks countries that fail to prosecute killers of journalists.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

29 April 08

Press Conference: Joint press conference on Global Food Crisis.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 46 minutes ]

24 April 08

Press Conference: Video press conference with World Food Programme Executive Director Josette Sheeran on the situation of soaring food prices around the world.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 55 minutes ]

23 April 08

Press Conference: UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman; Ted Turner, Chairman of the UN Foundation; Tim Wirth, President of the UN Foundation; and National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern to announce a new grassroots effort to raise funds for bed nets to help prevent malaria deaths in Africa.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 50 minutes ]

22 April 08

Press Conference: Joanne Sandler, Executive Director of UNIFEM, Tim Wirth, President of UN Foundation, and UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman, to update on UNIFEM's "Say No to Violence Against Women" Campaign.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 48 minutes ]

22 April 08

Press Conference: Firdaus Kharas, Chairman of Chocolate Moose Media, to hold a press conference to announce the creation and availability of the "Buzz and Bite" Malaria Prevention Campaign.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 24 minutes ]

21 April 08

Press Conference: President Evo Morales of Bolivia to brief on the opening of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, as well as on the current situation in Bolivia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]

21 April 08

Press Conference: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Myrna Cunningham, Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Autonomy and Development (Nicaragua); Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity; and Fiu Elisara, Executive Director of O le Siosiomaga Society Inc. (Samoa), to brief on the opening of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]

21 April 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Irakli Alasania of Georgia briefs on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 12 minutes ]

16 April 08

Press Conference: President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]

15 April 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Irakli Alasania of Georgia to brief on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]

15 April 08

Press Conference: Andr¨¦s Solimano, Regional Advisor of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of the UN University (UNU) Office in New York, to brief on UNU's latest study entitled "International Mobility of Talent".
[Webcast: Archived Video - 41 minutes ]

15 April 08

Press Conference: Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Jama of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and Ambassador Idd Beddel Mohamed, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Somalia to the UN to brief on the situation in Somalia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]

14 April 08

Press Conference: Philippe Douste-Blazy, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development, to brief on today's High-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 35 minutes ]

14 April 08

Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, to brief on his recent travels in the Gulf region.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

14 April 08

Press Conference: Agnes Asekenye-Oonyu, Chief of the Asia Pacific Section of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and other human rights experts discuss the impact of armed conflict on children in Sri Lanka.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

11 April 08

Press Conference: Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd Session of the General Assembly, to brief on the outcomes of the General Assembly's most recent debates on Security Council reform, management reform and the Millennium Development Goals, as well as on other upcoming activities.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]

8 April 08

Press Conference: Mr. Daniel Bellemare, Commissioner of the Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) for Lebanon, following Security Council Consultations on the IIIC (S/2008/210).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]

8 April 08

Press Conference: Mayor Helen Zille of Cape Town; Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Population Division; Eduardo Moreno, Chief of the Global Urban Observatory of the Monitoring System Branch of UN-HABITAT; David Satterthwaite from the International Institute for Environment and Development; and Mark Montgomery from the Policy Research Division of the Population Council to discuss the work of 41st Session of the Commission on Population and Development.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]

4 April 08

Press Conference: Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary for Economic and Social Affairs; Ambassador Maria Fernanda Espinosa of Ecuador; Ambassador Habib Mansour of Tunisia; and Ambassador Mohammed Al-Allaf of Jordan, on the future entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 57 minutes ]

2 April 08

Press Conference: Briefing by H.E. Mr. Dumisani Kumalo, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of April, on the programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]

1 April 08 Press Conference: Launch of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 2008 report "Africa and the Monterrey Consensus: Tracking Performance and Progress" - introduced by Richard Kozul-Wright  and Pingfan Hong, Senior Economists for the Department for Economic and Social Affairs.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 34 minutes ]
28 March 08 Press Conference: Abdou Diouf, Secretary-General of the International Organization of La Francophonie.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 24 minutes ]
26 March 08 Press Conference: The Economic and Social Survey for Asia and Pacific 2008 is launched by the Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Jomo Kwame Sundaram. He will be accompanied by Robert Voss, Director of DESA's Development Policy and Analysis Division.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 48 minutes ]
26 March 08 Press Conference: "Redefining AIDS in Asia - Crafting an Effective Response" - this report is introduced by Dr. Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Chairman of the Commission on AIDS in Asia and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India; Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS; and Ms. Frika Chia Iskandar, Coordinator, Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 38 minutes ]
25 March 08 Press Conference: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, with Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information; Harry Belafonte, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF; U.S. Congressman Donald Payne; and Ambassador Christopher Hackett of Barbados.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 46 minutes ]
20 March 08 Press Conference: Ambassador Nassir Abdelaziz Al-Nassir of Qatar to brief on the first World Autism Day (2 April 2008).
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 24 minutes ]
13 March 08 Press Conference: Kingsley Amaning, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Chad, to brief on the humanitarian situation in the country.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 34 minutes ]
11 March 08

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Irakli Alasania, Permanent Representative of Georgia, briefs the press on the situation concerning Abkhazia, Gerogia.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 17 minutes ]

10 March 08

Press Conference: Following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Africa Steering Group meeting, UN Secretary-General to hold a joint press conference with Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank; Alpha Oumar Konaré, Chairman of the African Union Commission; Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid at the European Commission; Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Mohammed Ennifar, Senior Advisor, at the Islamic Development Bank; Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; and Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank.
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 54 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 54 minutes ]

6 March 08

Press Conference: Michael Adlerstein, Executive Director of the Capital Master Plan (CMP), will provide updates on the CMP.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]

4 March 08

Press Conference: Briefing by H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of March, on the programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]

4 March 08 Press Conference: Joanne Sandler, Executive Director of UNIFEM; Reese Witherspoon, Actress and Avon Global Ambassador; and Andrea Jung, Chief Executive Officer of Avon Products Inc., to announce UNIFEM's partnership with Avon Inc. to promote women's economic empowerment and end violence against women.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]
3 March 08

Press Conference: Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky of the International Narcotics Control Board presents the main findings of the Board’s survey on the latest global drug control situation.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]

29 February 08

Press Conference: Anders Johnsson, Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU); Carolyn Hannan, Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women; Sharon Hay Webster from the Parliament of Jamaica; and Hilary Armstrong from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to launch the 2008 Map on the Political Representation of Women.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 54 minutes ]

29 February 08

Press Conference: Anders Johnsson, Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU); Carolyn Hannan, Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women; Sharon Hay Webster from the Parliament of Jamaica; and Hilary Armstrong from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; to hold a press conference to launch the 2008 Map on the Political Representation of Women.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]

28 February 08

Press Conference: H.E. Felipe Pérez Roque, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, to brief on becoming a signatory to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]

28 February 08

Press Conference: Mr. Toby Lanzer, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic, on the humanitarian situation in that country.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]

28 February 08

Press Conference: Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Chairman of the Independent Panel on Safety and Security of UN Personnel and Premises.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 43 minutes ]

26 February 08

Press Conference: Foreign Minister Ahmad Allam-Mi of Chad.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]

26 February 08

Press Conference: Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, on the results of the 2007 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]

21 February 08

Press Conference: "How to Prevent Climate Change - A Road Map to Success", with President Ólafur Ragnar Grímmson of Iceland, Amb. Hjálmar W. Hannesson of Iceland, and Dr. Leena Srivastava, Executive Director of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]

15 February 08

Press Conference: Joaquín Antuña, President of Peace and Cooperation, and Nancy Rivard, President of Airline Ambassadors, to launch the Peace and Cooperation School Award 2008: “Water for all”. [Sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Spain].
[Webcast: Archived Video - 58 minutes ]

14 February 08 Press Conference: Denise Nappier, Treasurer, State of Connecticut; Alex Sink, Chief Financial Officer, State of Florida; John Chiang, Controller, State of California; Bill Lockyer, Treasurer, State of California; Donald MacDonald, Trustee Director, British Telecom Pension Scheme; and Mindy S. Lubber, President of Ceres and Director of Investor Network on Climate Risk, to brief in connection with the Investor Summit on Climate Risk (Sponsored by United Nations Fund for International Partnerships).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 52 minutes ]
12 February 08 Press Conference: Ambassadors Angus Friday (Grenada), Colin D. Beck (Solomon Islands) and Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima (Cape Verde), members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), to brief on the impact of climate change on Small Island States.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 59 minutes ]
11 February 08 Press Conference: Mr. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, on the next steps after the climate change breakthrough in Bali.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]
11 February 08 Press Conference: H.E. Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd Session of the General Assembly, Sir Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin Group, and Actress Daryl Hannah, to brief on the General Assembly Thematic Debate on Climate Change.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 35 minutes ]
7 February 08 Press Conference: Mr. Bruno Catala, Registrar, International Criminal Court on the arrest and transfer to The Hague of a new suspect in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]
7 February 08 Press Conference: Dr. Douglas Bettcher, Director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Free Tobacco Initiative and Mr. Patrick Petit, Tax Officer, National Capacity Building Team, to brief on WHO's latest report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 42 minutes ]
7 February 08

Press Conference: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hold a news conference to highlight the key findings and recommendations of the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]

4 February 08

Press Conference: Briefing by H.E. Mr. Ricardo Alberto Arias, Permanent Representative of Panama to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of February, on the programme of work for the month.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 23 minutes ]

4 February 08 Press Conference: Under-Secretary-General for Management, Alicia Barcena (on behalf of Deputy Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro), on the signing event which recognized the 2008 performance compact agreement between the Secretary-General and the Secretariat's senior managers.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 23 minutes ]
31 January 08 Press Conference: Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information; Ms. Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General and Officer in-charge, Department of Field Support; and Mr. George Clooney, new United Nations Messenger for Peace.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]
28 January 08 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ariel Atias, Minister of Communications of Israel; H.E. Mr. Dan Gillerman, Permanent Representative of Israel; Ms. Alicia Bárcena, Under-Secretary-General for Management; and Mr. Kiyotaka Akasada, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (to lauch the new commemorative stamps on the theme “Rembrance and beyond”, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust).
[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]
25 January 08 Press Conference: Ms. Yakin Erturk, the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, on her recent visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes]
18 January 08 Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 25 minutes ]
16 January 08 Press Conference: Mr. Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the UN Development Programme, to brief on UNDP’s development priorities for 2008.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 8 minutes ]
10 January 08 Press Conference: Ms. Inga-Britt Ahlenius, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS); and Mr. Robert Appleton, Chairperson of the OIOS Procurement Task Force.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour ]
9 January 08 Press Conference: Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and Rob Vos, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division, DESA, to launch the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2008.
[Webcast: Archived Video - 54 minutes ]
7 January 08 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
[Webcast: Archived Video - 55 minutes ]
3 January 08 Press Conference: Briefing by Ambassador Giadalla Ettalhi, Permanent Representative of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of January..
[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]

 

 

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