Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS HELEN CLARK OF NEW ZEALAND AS NEW ADMINISTRATOR

of United Nations Development Programme

 

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

Delegates debate effects of reduced fertility as commission on population

and development continues forty-second session

 

In Keynote Address, Speaker Stresses Access

Human Rights Committee

Ninety-fifth Session

2621^st Meeting* (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS POSSIBLE CHANGES TO RULES OF PROCEDURE GOVERNING

SUBMISSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS UNDER OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

Proposal Submitted on Undue Delay in Submitting Communications

Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

78^th Meeting (PM)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Doha, Qatar, from Moscow, Russian Federation, on the evening of Saturday, 28 March.  He was greeted by Madam Ban Soon-taek, who had arrived before him, directly from New York.

TRAINING SERIES FOR DIPLOMATS LAUNCHED AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS; COURSES

OFFERED IN CLIMATE CHANGE, SECURITY, FACILITATION TO PREPARE DELEGATES

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Moscow in the Russian Federation during the afternoon of Thursday, 26 March.

ARAB SUMMIT MEETS AT TIME OF ‘PALPABLE UNCERTAINTY’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

NOTING ARAB WORLD FACES INSECURITY TODAY, POTENTIAL FOR MORE TOMORROW

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Summit of the League of Arab States, in Doha, Qatar, 30 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FULL FUNDING TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSES, MALARIA;

SAYS SUCH SPENDING ‘TRUE RECOVERY PACKAGE’ IN TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISES

MEN AND BOYS MUST PLAY THEIR PART IN FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN HOMES, SCHOOLS,

WORKPLACES, HALLS OF POWER, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE