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GA/L/3354

TREATIES COMPRISE BULK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, SO STATES NEED GUIDELINES ON EXPRESSING RESERVATIONS, ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD

30 October 2008
General AssemblyGA/L/3354
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

Sixth Committee

20th Meeting (PM)


TREATIES COMPRISE BULK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, SO STATES NEED GUIDELINES


ON EXPRESSING RESERVATIONS, ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE TOLD


Debate Continues on Further Topics in Commission Report; Aspects

SG/SM/11896

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS ENDURING COOPERATION, PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS, PHILIPPINES

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11896
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS ENDURING COOPERATION, PARTNERSHIP

 

BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS, PHILIPPINES

 


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a dinner hosted by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines, in Manila today, 29 October:

SG/SM/11895

IN ADDRESS TO UNIVERSITY OF PHILIPPINES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS MULTIPLE CRISES REQUIRE FRESH THINKING, GLOBAL COOPERATION AT ALL LEVELS

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11895
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

IN ADDRESS TO UNIVERSITY OF PHILIPPINES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS MULTIPLE


CRISES REQUIRE FRESH THINKING, GLOBAL COOPERATION AT ALL LEVELS


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address at the University of the Philippines, delivered today, 29 October in Manila:

SG/SM/11894-DEV/2700-POP/969

AS WORLD COPES WITH ‘CASCADE’ OF NATIONAL FINANCIAL CHALLENGES, HUMAN MOBILITY CAN BE TOOL TO ‘HELP LIFT US OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC CRISIS’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11894
DEV/2700
POP/969
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

AS WORLD COPES WITH ‘CASCADE’ OF NATIONAL FINANCIAL CHALLENGES, HUMAN MOBILITY CAN


BE TOOL TO ‘HELP LIFT US OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC CRISIS’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

SG/SM/11893-AFR/1763

SECRETARY-GENERAL VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS MULTIPLE BOMB ATTACKS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA, AS SUICIDE BOMBING AT UNITED NATIONS COMPOUND KILLS TWO STAFF

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11893
AFR/1763
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS MULTIPLE BOMB ATTACKS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA,


AS SUICIDE BOMBING AT UNITED NATIONS COMPOUND KILLS TWO STAFF


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

SG/SM/11892-AFR/1762-PKO/198

SECRETARY-GENERAL ALARMED AT ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, WARNS OF POSSIBLE ‘CATASTROPHIC’ HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11892
AFR/1762
PKO/198
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL ALARMED AT ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC


REPUBLIC OF CONGO, WARNS OF POSSIBLE ‘CATASTROPHIC’ HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

 


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

SG/SM/11891

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH, DESTRUCTION FROM PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE, SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS READY TO LEND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11891
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH, DESTRUCTION FROM PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE,


SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS READY TO LEND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: