Secretary-General Praises Ban as ‘Exceptionally Attuned’ to All Countries, Peoples

The General Assembly today appointed Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea as the next United Nations Secretary-General, giving him a two-and-one-half-month transition before taking over the helm of the world body from Kofi Annan on 1 January.
 

Peacebuilding Commission

Burundi configuration

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Challenges facing burundi, requiring international help, indicated

at country-specific meetings of peacebuilding commission

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fourth Committee

9^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT ON WESTERN Sahara at CONCLUSION

OF DEBATE ON DECOLONIZATION ISSUES

Delegates also Conclude Discussion on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

CONTINUING ITS DISCUSSION OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS, THIRD COMMITTEE

HEARS ABOUT DANGERS CONFRONTING YOUTH WORLDWIDE

 

Poverty, Prostitution, Street Life,

Unexploded Munitions among Concerns Cited

Sixty-first General Assembly

Sixth Committee

4^th Meeting (AM)

Assembly’s legal committee hears call for spirit of compromise in effort

to complete comprehensive convention on international terrorism

Lebanon , Noting Recent Experience, Says Resistance to Occupation

Sixty-first General Assembly

First Committee

13^th Meeting (PM)

SMALL ARMS TRAFFIC FUELS CONFLICTS, UNDERMINES STABILITY, DEVELOPMENT

FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD IN CONTINUED DEBATE

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

30^th Meeting (AM)

NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT SPURS SUSTAINABLE GAINS ON CONTINENT,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD, AS IT CONCLUDES DEBATE ON AFRICAN STRATEGY, CONCERNS

Peacebuilding Commission

Second Session

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Great Strides made in Sierra Leone’s emergence from conflict, peacebuilding

commission told in first ever country-specific meeting

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fourth Committee

8^th Meeting (AM)

POTENTIAL OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE, EQUITABLE ACCESS TO SPACE TECHNOLOGIES AMONG ISSUES

AS FOURTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

14^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SAYS 2006 ‘A TERRIBLE YEAR’ FOR CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT,

AS THIRD COMMITTEE CONTINUES DEBATE ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

In Recent War in Lebanon, Other Conflicts,