UNMIT MEDIA ALERT

UNMIT invites all media to attend its Weekly Press Briefing tomorrow: Thursday 7th February 2008 at 11.30am in Conference Room C at Obrigado Barracks. Journalists will hear from SRSG Atul Khare and Dr Nafis Sadik, UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. For more information, please call Allison Cooper on +670 723 0453 or Hipolito Gama on +670 7311839

Disaster Operations Centre, Press Conference

The Disaster Operations Centre will be holding a inter-ministerial press conference at 2pm tomorrow, Thursday 7th of February 2008 at the Ministry of Social Solidarity's Conference Room.

This press conference will provide an update on the;

Present situation with District emergencies;
Locust in Timor-Leste and West Timor;
Early warning on high wind and rainfall forecasted for the next two weeks with risks for wind damage, flooding and landslides;
And the outlook for La Nina

Please contact us if you have any needs for further information.

In service for;Disaster Operations CentrePhone: 112 Police National Operation CentrePhone: 729 14 65 Tetum/Bahasa Indonesia 24/7Phone: 733 66 12 English 24/7E-mail: doc.ndmd@gmail.comNational Disaster Management DirectorateMinistry of Social SolidarityDemocratic Republic of Timor-Leste