GA/SHC/4034
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the General Assembly today elected, by acclamation, Henry L. Mac-Donald (Suriname) as Chair of its sixty-seventh session.
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GA/L/3431
The General Assembly’s Sixth Committee (Legal) today elected Yuriy A. Sergeyev (Ukraine) as Chair for its sixty-seventh session.
GA/EF/3333
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the General Assembly today elected, by acclamation, George Wilfred Talbot (Guyana) as Chair of its sixty-seventh session.
GA/DIS/3450
The General Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today elected, by acclamation, Desra Percaya (Indonesia) as Chair of its sixty-seventh session.
GA/AB/4035
The General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today elected Miguel Berger (Germany) as Chair of its sixty-seventh session. Elected by acclamation, Mr. Berger has been the Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations since July 2010, after having worked in his country’s foreign service since 1988.
GA/11268
With some 2.5 million people in Syria urgently needing assistance, the humanitarian situation was deteriorating, both in that strife-torn nation and in neighbouring countries affected by the nearly 19-month-old crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, as he briefed the General Assembly on the latest political, security and human rights conditions characterizing the crisis.
SC/10754
The Security Council today condemned and called for an immediate halt to aerial bombardments, harbouring or otherwise supporting rebel groups, cross-border military movements and other violations of its resolution 2046 (2012) on the part of Sudan and South Sudan.
SC/10752
Seeking to ease the humanitarian crisis affecting more than 2.5 million Syrians, including more than 200,000 refugees who had fled the violence to neighbouring countries, Security Council members insisted today that the body’s inability to have a decisive impact in ending the bloodshed in the beleaguered nation did not mean that progress could not be made on the humanitarian track.
SC/10751
Condemning in the strongest terms attacks against personnel of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and reiterating its calls for the rapid finalization of that country’s investigation into three 2011 attacks on the mission, the Security Council today extended its mandate for one year, until 31 August 2013.
DC/3385
The United Nations Review Conference continued today with representatives of firearms associations throwing into sharp relief the distinction between legal civilian ownership of weapons and the devastating illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, as speakers underscored the right of individuals — and women in particular — to defend themselves against violence.