MEASURES TO EMPOWER WOMEN STRAIGHTEST, SUREST PATH TO MORE PEACEFUL,

PROSPEROUS WORLD, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT DOHA EVENT

 

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to launch event on Financing for Development and the Economics of Gender, in Doha, 29 November:

TODAY’S FINANCIAL CRISIS, IF NOT HANDLED PROPERLY, WILL BECOME TOMORROW’S

HUMAN CRISIS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT OPENING

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS ROCKET ATTACK NEAR UN COMPOUND IN BAGHDAD

The following statement was issued Saturday, 29 November, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,

SAYS MUCH TO CELEBRATE WITH ENTRY INTO FORCE OF RIGHTS CONVENTION

SUMMARY OF DOHA HIGH-LEVEL INFORMAL DISCUSSION ON IMPLICATIONS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS

FOR DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, MULTILATERALISM

 

WEALTHY NATIONS, OTHERS BEHIND FINANCIAL CRISIS MUST

 

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, ROUND TABLE ON DEBT TOLD

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

ROUND TABLE MODERATOR STRESSES NEED TO REITERATE CALLS FOR SCALED-UP

AID IN LIGHT OF ‘CHANGED GLOBAL REALITIES’

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

EXPERTS STRESS NEED TO AVOID PROTECTIONISM, AS ROUND TABLE

 

DISCUSSES TRADE AS ENGINE OF DEVELOPMENT

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

ROUND-TABLE PANELLISTS CALL FOR RESOLUTE ACTION TO SHORE

 

UP CONFIDENCE AMID GLOBAL FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC WOES

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

TAXES PROVIDE PLATFORM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

 

ROUND TABLE ON DOMESTIC RESOURCE MOBILIZATION TOLD

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)