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10 May 2011

SC/10245

Eruption of Crises Drives Home Need to Implement Resolutions on Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict, Security Council Told

The unprecedented crises in the Middle East and parts of North and sub-Saharan Africa over the last six months drove home the need for the Security Council to implement its five resolutions intended to protect civilians trapped in the crossfire of armed conflict, the top United Nations humanitarian official said today.

10 May 2011

GA/AB/3988

Budget Committee Takes Up Third Report on Restructuring of Peacekeeping Operations; Financing Proposals for Support Account for Peacekeeping, Brindisi Logistics Base

The Fifth Committee today heard the United Nations top officials responsible for peacekeeping and the mission support needed to sustain it review the successes and difficulties of the restructuring of operations begun in 2007, and lay out the approach they developed to ensure the support account for the operations strengthened the capacity to manage them in a changing world of greater financial constraints.

10 May 2011

ENV/DEV/1208

Working Group Chairs Brief Sustainable Development Commission on Progress in Negotiations

The Commission on Sustainable Development had reached a critical moment in its negotiations to develop concrete policy recommendations, delegates were told today as the body discussed progress made by its working groups more than halfway through its annual two-week session.

10 May 2011

DEV/2888

Thematic Debate Speakers at Istanbul Conference Say Supply-Side Constraints Hobble Least Developed Countries, Despite Some Preferential Trade Terms

ISTANBUL, 10 May — In order to benefit from access to world markets, it was vital for the poorest countries to increase their production capabilities in agriculture, industry and services, a high-level panel at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Least-Developed Countries agreed this afternoon.

10 May 2011

DEV/2887

High-Level Thematic Debate Considers Resource Mobilization to Break Logjam in Development, as Least Developed Countries Conference Continues

ISTANBUL, 10 May — Prodigious existing domestic and international flows of funds, as well as innovative financing methods, must be harnessed to fill the huge gap in infrastructure and human resources suffered by the poorest countries, a high-level panel said this morning at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul.

10 May 2011

DEV/2886

Delegations Seek to Realign Development Strategies for World’s Poor, as Conference on Least Developed Countries Continues in Istanbul

ISTANBUL, 10 May — Structurally transforming the world’s poorest countries over the next decade required investing in national productive sectors, building infrastructure to boost trade and, for many small islands, adopting measures to cushion against external shocks that often wiped out hard-won gains, senior Government officials said today as the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries moved into its second day.

9 May 2011

SC/10244

United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Head Briefs Security Council on Libya, Presses for Pause in Hostilities to Allow Evacuations, Aid Deliveries

The United Nations top humanitarian official this afternoon pressed for a temporary end to hostilities in Misrata and other areas in Libya in order to allow civilians in the strife-torn North African nation to leave and international relief workers to deliver vital humanitarian aid and assess the humanitarian situation on the ground. “Civilians are still coming under fire in these conflict areas. This has to stop,” said Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

9 May 2011

SC/10243

Briefing Security Council, Bosnia and Herzegovina High Representative Describes Most Serious, Direct Challenges to Peace Agreement Since Signed in 1995

Beset by an upsurge in nationalist rhetoric and calls for further division, and still no prospect of forming a State-level Government seven months after holding general elections, Bosnia and Herzegovina faced a deteriorating political situation that could — if the current crisis deepened — have negative consequences for the entire region, Valentin Inzko, the High Representative, told the Security Council this morning.

9 May 2011

GA/PK/208

Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations Condemns Killings of United Nations Peacekeepers, Approving Draft Report as 2011 Session Concludes

Concluding its 2011 substantive session, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping today condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the killing of United Nations peacekeeping personnel, as well as targeted attacks and criminal acts, such as kidnapping and carjacking.

9 May 2011

DEV/2883

Support for Informal Sector in Least Developed Nations Crucial to Growing National Economies, Thematic Debate Hears at Istanbul Conference

ISTANBUL, 9 May — While the private sector was the main force behind diversifying national economies and spurring integration into the global economy, in least developed countries, it was dominated by small and informal enterprises, making the creation of an enabling business environment essential for their advancement over the next decade, said participants in the first of six high-level thematic debates to be held during the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.