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Central African Ministers Adopt Common Position for Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations

On 16 March, at its thirty-second ministerial meeting held in Sao Tomé, the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa adopted the “Sao Tomé Declaration on a Central African Common Position on the Arms Trade Treaty”. The United Nations Committee is composed of the following Member States: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and Sao Tome and Principe.
SG/T/2773

Activities of Secretary-General in France, 19-20 March

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris on Saturday, 19 March, to co-chair an international meeting on Libya with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He flew in from Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whom he had met on an official visit to Spain one day earlier.

SG/T/2772

Activities of Secretary-General in Spain, 18-19 March

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Madrid, Spain, from Guatemala on Friday, 18 March. He met Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez, and followed that meeting with a working luncheon with the Prime Minister and his senior aides.