Sixty-third General Assembly

Second Committee

17^th & 18^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GLOBAL CRISES OFFER CHANCES TO USE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS ENGINE FOR COMMON

PURPOSES, MEETING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD

Sixty-third General Assembly

First Committee

18^th Meeting (PM)

CANADA ASKS FIRST COMMITTEE TO IMAGINE ‘UTOPIAN’ PICTURE OF DISARMAMENT MACHINERY;

URGES ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS WHERE PROGRESS IN TRADITIONAL MACHINERY HAS STAGNATED

Sixty-third General Assembly

Fifth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS STRONG SUPPORT FOR INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, AS DIRECTOR GENERAL MOHAMED ELBARADEI PRESENTS ANNUAL REPORT

Surging Energy Demand, Climate Change, Drive Nuclear Power ‘Renaissance’, Says

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled from United Nations Headquarters to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the morning of Tuesday, 21 October, arriving in the early afternoon at Harvard University, where the Secretary-General was to deliver a speech entitled “Securing the common good in a time of global crises”.

UN MUST ENSURE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS DOES NOT DEAL CRUSHING FINAL BLOW

TO POOREST OF POOR, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CHIEF EXECUTIVES BOARD

SECRETARY-GENERAL, DISCUSSING INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SITUATION WITH TOP EXPERTS,

STRESSES NEED TO KEEP LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES AT CENTRE OF GLOBAL AGENDA

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

‘CONTAGIOUS’ DOCTRINE OF DETERRENCE HAS MADE NON-PROLIFERATION MORE DIFFICULT,

RAISED NEW RISKS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO EAST-WEST INSTITUTE

SECRETARY-GENERAL, RECEIVING HUMANITARIANS OF THE YEAR AWARD, SAYS INVESTMENT

IN CLEAN ENERGY HOLDS GREAT BENEFITS FOR PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT, ‘BOTTOM LINE’

Response of United Nations Chief Executives Board to Global Financial Crisis