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People Daily (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By William M. Reilly UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday honored Michele Montas, his retiring spokesperson, as the "real face of the United Nations." Montas delivered her final daily briefing to reporters who gave her a standing round of applause. She was to be replaced by Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By William M. Reilly UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday honored Michele Montas, his retiring spokesperson, as the "real face of the United Nations." Montas delivered her final daily briefing to reporters who gave her a standing round of applause. She was to be replaced by Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
New York - Martin Nesirky, a British national and former Reuters correspondent, was Tuesday appointed spokesman for United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Nesirky will replace Michelle Montas, a former journalist from Haiti, next month. Montas...
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BBC SPORT - Olympics 2008 blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on November 9 - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics. I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn , when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode. The story...