Biographical Note

BAN KI-MOON, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL

 

Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea, the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, brings to his post 37 years of service both in Government and on the global stage.

Security Council welcomes launch of negotiations

 

between greek-cypriot, turkish-cypriot leaders

 

Security Council

5970^th Meeting (PM)

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN SECURITY’

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘OVERCOMING DISCRIMINATION

TO REALIZE HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY FOR ALL’

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

International Covenant on Civil

and Political Rights

27^th Meeting (AM)

states parties to covenant on civil and political rights

 

elect nine members to human rights committee

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

117^th & 118^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Secretary-General’s video message for historic paris dpi/ngo conference

 

Secretary-General welcomes launch of Cyprus negotiations

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the launch of negotiations on Cyprus, as delivered by Alexander Downer, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, in Nicosia today, 3 September:

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘UPHOLDING

 

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS’

 

Reaffirming Indivisibility of All Human Rights Essential in Defending Declaration

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)