Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to the High-Level Segment of the Fifteenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit, in Sharm el‑Sheikh, Egypt, today, 15 July:
The United Nations Board of Auditors, the independent external auditors of the United Nations and its funds and programmes, held its sixty-third regular session during the period 9 to 10 July 2009 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The main purpose of the meeting was to review and approve the audit reports of the Board to be presented to the General Assembly and other legislative/governing bodies.
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene a United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 22 and 23 July 2009 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The theme of the Meeting is “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the formal meeting of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission, In New York today, 13 July:
Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Roland Rich, Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund, to the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, in Lisbon, Portugal, being held on 11 and 12 July:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ad Melkert of the Netherlands as his Special Representative for Iraq. Mr. Melkert currently serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York, and will replace Staffan de Mistura.
Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the breakfast on the impact of the economic crisis on Africa, at the G-8 Summit, in L’Aquila, Italy, on 10 July: