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22 January 2014

ECOSOC/6590-NGO/782

Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Recommends Special Consultative Status for 76 Entities, including Several from Global South; Defers Action on 21

Continuing its regular session for 2014, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 76 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and deferred action on the status of 21 others.

21 January 2014

ECOSOC/6589-NGO/781

Opening 2014 Session, Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Recommends 29 Groups for Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council

Opening its regular session for 2014, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this morning recommended 29 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferred action on the status of 13 others.

20 January 2014

SC/11252

Secretary-General Tells Security Council 2014 Will Be ‘Decisive’ Year in Helping Israelis, Palestinians Draw Back from ‘Unsustainable Status Quo’

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that 2014 would be decisive in helping Israelis and Palestinians draw back from a perilous and unsustainable status quo, pressing leaders on both sides to take “bold decisions and painful compromises” for peace or face perhaps the last attempt to salvage the two-State solution.

16 January 2014

SC/11248

Continuing International Support Crucial in Helping Mali Avert Relapse into 2012 Crisis Situation, Security Council Told

With Mali at a crossroads, the international community should continue to support efforts to steer the country away from a relapse into the conditions that had given rise to the “unprecedented crisis” of more than a year ago, the senior United Nations official in the West African country told the Security Council today.

16 January 2014

GA/PAL/1284

Palestinian Rights Committee Opens 2014 Session upon Launch of International Year of Solidarity, as Speakers Outline Steps to Redress ‘Historical Injustices’

During today’s official launch of the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the President of the State of Palestine called on the international community to support the observance and expressed hope it would lead to the end of Israel’s 47-year occupation of Palestinian lands and to the creation of an independent Palestinian State with full United Nations membership.

14 January 2014

ECOSOC/6588

Economic and Social Council Opens 2014 Session by Outlining Structural Reforms Deemed ‘Most Significant’ in Over 20 Years

Pledging support for the new organizational and institutional structure of the Economic and Social Council, the United Nations top economic and social affairs official today said it would bolster that body’s capacity to fortify the ambitious global post-2015 development agenda.

13 January 2014

SC/11246

Briefing Security Council, Special Representative in Democratic Republic of Congo, Says Mission Moving Military, Police, Civilian Staff ‘Where People Need Us Most’

Commending peacekeepers’ recent efforts to quell violence and help national armed forces defeat the 23 March Movement insurgency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the commander of the United Nations Mission there said today that this year it must be more agile and active in the strife-torn eastern part of the country.

10 January 2014

SC/11245

Security Council Deplores Al-Qaida Attacks in Iraq Province, Recognizes ‘Great Courage’ Needed to Defeat It

Deploring in the strongest terms recent events in Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar Province, the Security Council today condemned the attacks by Al-Qaida affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, in an attempt to destabilize the country and the region.

6 January 2014

SC/11242

Situation in Central African Republic Has ‘Greatly Deteriorated’, Security Council Told as Senior Official Stresses Violence, Atrocities Must Stop

The situation in the Central African Republic had “greatly deteriorated” following a spate of attacks on 5 December that had triggered further unrest in the strife-torn country, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today, urging those in positions of influence — including the 15-member organ — to do more towards ending the violence.

31 December 2013

GA/11480

General Assembly President Urges Decisive Action, Collaboration in Tackling Grinding Poverty, Other Tasks under Budgetary Constraints

Against a backdrop of imminent or impending wars, civil and sectarian bloodshed and strife between and within States, chemical warfare in Syria, grinding poverty and malnutrition, gender violence and deadly climate change impacts, the year ahead was “pivotal” for the 193-nation organ, General Assembly President John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) said at the opening of its sixty-eighth session.