Background Release

‘LEFT IN THE DARK; THE UNMET NEED FOR COMMUNICATION IN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE’

SUBJECT OF HIGH-LEVEL PANEL HELD AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

EXPERTS PROPOSE NEW INTERNATIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM AS PART OF EFFORTS

TO CREATE MORE EFFECTIVE, DEMOCRATIC GLOBAL STRUCTURES

 

Panel Releases Wide-Ranging Recommendations Ahead

Of Final Report to June Conference on Impact of Economic Meltdown

Sixty-third General Assembly

Thematic Dialogue on World

 Financial Crisis (AM & PM)

Economic and Social Council

2009 Organizational Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

TAKING ACTION ON THREE DECISIONS, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL PICKS THEME

FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SEGMENT OF 2009 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Other Texts Address Regional Perspectives

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS HE WILL ‘BREAK THE SILENCE, BEAT THE DRUM’ TO COMMEMORATE

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR VICTIMS OF SLAVERY, TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEMBER STATES TO BUTTRESS ARCHITECTURE OF PROTECTION,

ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED AND MISSING STAFF MEMBERS

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS PETER W. GALBRAITH OF UNITED STATES

AS DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANISTAN

 

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS OSCAR FERNANDEZ-TARANCO OF ARGENTINA

AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

 

Security Council

6100^th Meeting (AM & PM)

Under-Secretary-General, in briefing to Security Council, tells of little

progress towards rebuilding gaza after israeli invasion

 

Continuing Blockade, Closure of Border Crossings