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GA/DIS/3371
20 October 2008
General AssemblyGA/DIS/3371
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

First Committee

12th Meeting (AM)


PREVENTING OUTER SPACE ARMS RACE WOULD AVERT GRAVE DANGER; POSSIBLE NEW VERIFIABLE


BILATERAL, MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS NEEDED, SAYS DRAFT TEXT IN FIRST COMMITTEE

SG/SM/11868-ENV/DEV/1010
17 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11868
ENV/DEV/1010
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED ABOUT FINANCIAL CRISIS, URGES EUROPEAN UNION


NOT TO LET IT HAMPER MOMENTUM OF BRUSSELS LEADERSHIP ON CLIMATE CHANGE

 


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the European Council response to climate change:

SG/SM/11867
17 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11867
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGACY OF UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN


TOM LANTOS AT GLOBAL COMPASSION BALL

 


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Global Compassion Ball in New York, 16 October:

SG/A/1161-BIO/4036-PKO/195
17 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/A/1161
BIO/4036
PKO/195
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Biographical Note


SECRETARY-GENERAL TO APPOINT MAJOR GENERAL KIM MOON HWA OF REPUBLIC OF KOREA


CHIEF MILITARY OBSERVER OF UN MILITARY OBSERVER GROUP IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN