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SG/SM/11642

BBC MEMORIAL SOLEMN REMINDER OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES ‘GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LONDON UNVEILING

16 June 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11642
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

BBC MEMORIAL SOLEMN REMINDER OF THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES ‘GIVING VOICE


TO THE VOICELESS’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LONDON UNVEILING


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the unveiling of the BBC memorial to slain journalists, in London, 16 June:

SG/SM/11641-SAG/418

SECRETARY-GENERAL, COMMENDING INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION FOR TACKLING COMPLEX ISSUES, EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE IT WILL HELP TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE

16 June 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11641
SAG/418
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, COMMENDING INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION FOR TACKLING


COMPLEX ISSUES, EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE IT WILL HELP TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) today, in London:

SG/SM/11640-AFR/1715

DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT RENEWED FIGHTING IN CHAD, SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ATTEMPTS TO DESTABILIZE COUNTRY, CALLS ON PARTIES TO CEASE HOSTILITIES

16 June 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11640
AFR/1715
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT RENEWED FIGHTING IN CHAD, SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS


ATTEMPTS TO DESTABILIZE COUNTRY, CALLS ON PARTIES TO CEASE HOSTILITIES


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

SC/9361-AFG/317

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN

16 June 2008
Security CouncilSC/9361
AFG/317
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN

 


The following Security Council press statement on Afghanistan was read out today by Council President Zalmay Khalilzad ( United States):

SC/9359

SECURITY COUNCIL URGES SUDAN’S GOVERNMENT TO FULLY COOPERATE WITH INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ‘TO PUT AN END TO IMPUNITY FOR THE CRIMES COMMITTED IN DARFUR’

16 June 2008
Security CouncilSC/9359
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Security Council

5912th Meeting (AM)


Security Council urges sudan’s government to fully cooperate with International


Criminal Court ‘to put an end to impunity for the crimes committed in darfur’


Presidential Statement Follows 5 June Briefing by Prosecutor,

SG/T/2610

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN FRANCE, 12 JUNE

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife Ban Soon-taek arrived in Paris on Thursday, 12 June.  In the morning, he addressed the Conference convened by the French Government in Paris to support Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai launched a National Development Strategy for his country.