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9 May 2014

PI/2092

Committee on Information Emphasizes Need for Equitable Use of All Official United Nations Languages, as It Approves 2 Draft Resolutions

Following two weeks of intense negotiations, the Committee on Information emphasized today the importance of using all official United Nations languages — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish — and of ensuring their full and equitable treatment in all activities of the Department of Public Information.

9 May 2014

GA/AB/4108

Overdue Increase in Reimbursement Rate for Troop-contributing Countries Critical to Delivery of Mandates, Say Fifth Committee Delegates

With demand growing significantly for United Nations peacekeeping, time had come to make a decision to increase the reimbursement rate for troop-contributing countries, delegates from those States today told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

7 May 2014

GA/AB/4107

United Nations Role in Haiti Crucial to Stability, Say Delegates in Fifth Committee, Speaking out against Proposed Financial Cuts

Delegates expressed alarm today that proposed cuts to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti would thwart that struggling Caribbean nation’s gains towards stability and development, as the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Financial) examined the budgets for the previous and current cycles of that mission and three other peacekeeping operations.

6 May 2014

GA/AB/4106

Financial Situation of United Nations ‘Generally Sound’, Under-Secretary-General Tells Fifth Committee

The United Nations financial situation was “generally sound” at the end of 2013 thanks to the continued positive efforts of many Member States, the Organization’s top management official today told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

5 May 2014

GA/PAL/1293

Palestinian Rights Committee, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Turkey Jointly to Convene International Meeting on Jerusalem, 12-13 May

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, jointly with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Government of the Republic of Turkey, will convene the International Meeting on the Question of Jerusalem on 12 and 13 May 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel and Convention Centre in Ankara.

5 May 2014

GA/AB/4105

Fifth Committee Considers Ways to Improve Management of Peacekeeping Funds as It Opens Resumed Sixty-Eighth Session

Delegates discussed strategies to better manage the United Nations budget for both active and closed peacekeeping missions, as the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened the second part of its resumed sixty-eighth session this morning and adopted its programme of work.

29 April 2014

PI/2086

United Nations Remains ‘Repository’ of Information for Advancing Humanity’s Cause, Under-Secretary-General Says, as Committee Concludes General Debate

Despite expanding mandates and expectations and shrinking resources, the United Nations remained the “repository” of historic and current information for Governments, children, women and men to use to advance the collective human cause, the Organization’s senior communications official told the Committee on Information as it concluded its general debate.

28 April 2014

PI/2085

Department Deploying All Efforts to Support United Nations Peace Efforts across Africa, Under-Secretary-General Tells Committee on Information

By drawing on all its assets and partnering with a variety of stakeholders, the Department of Public Information was helping the United Nations support peace efforts across Africa, its chief told the Committee on Information today as it opened its thirty-sixth session.

25 April 2014

DC/3492

Consensus Eludes Disarmament Commission as It Concludes Triennial Cycle on Agenda Driven by Nuclear, Conventional Weapons

The Disarmament Commission concluded its 2014 session without an agreed outcome at the end of the third and final year of considering its agenda items on nuclear disarmament and conventional weapons.

23 April 2014

GA/11501

General Assembly Adopts Resolution to Convene Second Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries for 10-Year Review of Almaty Declaration, Action Plan

The General Assembly today adopted a resolution entitled the “Second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries”, by which a 10-year review of the Almaty Declaration and Action Programme would be convened from 3 to 5 November, and by which preparatory sessions on 12 and 13 June and 2 and 3 October in the run-up to the event would be held.