FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf briefing correspondents on the "Significance of Climate Change on Agriculture" and the International Year of the Potato (2008), UN headquarters, 01 August 2007. The Director-General was the special guest at the noon press briefing of the UN Spokesperson of the Secretary General. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Spokesperson, Ms Marie Okabe. The UN webcast of the Director-General's press briefing can be accessed at HYPERLINK "http://www.un.org/webcast/pressbriefing.htm"http://www.un.org/webcast/pressbriefing.htm and the press release is available at HYPERLINK "http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/070801_FAO.doc.htm"http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/070801_FAO.doc.htm