SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO LUANDA MEETING, NOTES ‘ENCOURAGING’ STEPS TOWARDS

PEACE IN CENTRAL AFRICA, BUT SAYS SOME RECENT EVENTS THREATEN LASTING STABILITY

Security Council

5893^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES STRONG SUPPORT FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL’S INTEGRATED

STRATEGY FOR PEACE IN SOMALIA, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1814 (2008)

Requests Updated Version of Plan within 60 Days;

DELEGATES DISCUSS NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES OF WESTERN SAHARA, FALKLAND

ISLANDS (MALVINAS), TOKELAU AS PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR ENTERS SECOND DAY

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

41^st Meeting (AM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

97^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING RIGHT OF RETURN BY REFUGEES,

INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS TO ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA

 

Commission on Sustainable Development

Sixteenth Session

18^th & 19^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FOOD, COMMODITY CRISES CAUGHT WORLD NAPPING, SAY SPEAKERS TAKING PART

IN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTRAGED BY BOMBINGS IN JAIPUR, INDIA

 

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

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CAN OFFER CONCRETE ACTION, NEW IDEAS

ON WIDE RANGE OF WORLD’S FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York, 14 May:

‘COLONIALISM HAS NO PLACE IN TODAY’S WORLD,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN MESSAGE TO DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR IN INDONESIA

 

Security Council

5892^nd Meeting (AM)

DARFUR MISSION DEPLOYMENT SLOWED BY DETERIORATING SECURITY, HARSH CONDITIONS;

MUST BE CONSIDERABLY STRENGTHENED TO CARRY OUT MANDATE, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Peacekeeping Head Describes Plan to Maximize Deployment by End of 2008;