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TEXT OF DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UN
Federal News Service
September 7, 2006 Thursday
United Nations, New York City, New York, September 06, 2006
STEPHANE DUJARRIC: Good afternoon.
Ibrahim Gambari, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs,
as well as David Hamburg, the Chair of the Advisory Group on
Genocide Prevention, will be joining us today to brief on the
Secretary-General's report on conflict prevention.
[parts omitted]
Q: There's been an item that the General Assembly was supposed to
vote on yesterday, and today, and now it's going to be tomorrow,
about Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan and Armenia. So, part of the
dispute is this request that the Secretary-General do a report on
the area. Is the Secretariat involved in these discussions at all?
MR. DUJARRIC: It's before the General Assembly. Once they vote and
instruct the Secretary-General, then we'll follow that resolution.
But we're not involved in those discussions.
Q: Is it possible to describe the United Nations activities in
Nagorno-Karabakh? Which agencies are providing services?
MR. DUJARRIC: We can look on the humanitarian side.
(The Spokesman later added that the Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) did not have a presence in Nagorno-
Karabakh. Nevertheless, it had recently worked with the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) to support efforts by the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to control the forest
fire situation there.)
Federal News Service
September 7, 2006 Thursday
United Nations, New York City, New York, September 06, 2006
STEPHANE DUJARRIC: Good afternoon.
Ibrahim Gambari, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs,
as well as David Hamburg, the Chair of the Advisory Group on
Genocide Prevention, will be joining us today to brief on the
Secretary-General's report on conflict prevention.
[parts omitted]
Q: There's been an item that the General Assembly was supposed to
vote on yesterday, and today, and now it's going to be tomorrow,
about Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan and Armenia. So, part of the
dispute is this request that the Secretary-General do a report on
the area. Is the Secretariat involved in these discussions at all?
MR. DUJARRIC: It's before the General Assembly. Once they vote and
instruct the Secretary-General, then we'll follow that resolution.
But we're not involved in those discussions.
Q: Is it possible to describe the United Nations activities in
Nagorno-Karabakh? Which agencies are providing services?
MR. DUJARRIC: We can look on the humanitarian side.
(The Spokesman later added that the Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) did not have a presence in Nagorno-
Karabakh. Nevertheless, it had recently worked with the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) to support efforts by the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to control the forest
fire situation there.)