Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

94^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES THEMATIC DEBATE AIMED AT GALVANIZING SUPPORT

FOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY 2015

 

‘2008 Must Be the Year of Action,’ Says Assembly President;

new study seeks to show changing face of migration in southern africa

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS

 

OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND ITS OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF CROSSING IN CYPRIOT CAPITAL

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

LEARN FROM PROBLEMS OF CORRUPTION, COORDINATION, PARTNERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN,

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SUMMIT

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Conference on Afghanistan in Bucharest, today, 3 April:

Secretary-General, in message for world health day, stresses need to place

 

protection of most vulnerable at heart of global climate change agenda

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, observed on 7 April:

Secretary-General appoints catherine pollard of guyana as Assistant

Secretary-General for human resources management

 

Biographical Note

Secretary-General appoints aracelly santana of ecuador as deputy special

representative, deputy head of United Nations Mission in Nepal

 

Background Release

WITH 20 RATIFICATIONS, LANDMARK DISABILITY TREATY SET TO ENTER INTO FORCE ON 3 MAY

Ecuador today became the twentieth country to ratify the landmark Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is now set to enter into force on 3 May.  The Convention needed 20 ratifications to take effect.