Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS KAI EIDE of NORWAY

 

AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANISTAN

 

Note to Correspondents

CARTOON ART GOES ON SHOW AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 13 MARCH

An exhibition of cartoon art from around the world, entitled “Cartoon Art for World Peace”, is on display in the Main Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby and will be formally launched on Thursday, 13 March 2008 at 6 p.m.

Special Committee on

Peacekeeping Operations

201^st & 202^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

30^th Meeting (AM)

Fifth committee takes up proposals to improve timeliness,

Quality of Internal Oversight investigations

Also Discusses Secretary-General ’s Recommendation

Commission on the Status of Women

Fifty-second Session

16^th Meeting (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES ‘GREAT REGRET’ OVER LOUISE ARBOUR’S DECISION

 

NOT TO SEEK SECOND TERM AS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER

 

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

Note to Correspondents

United Nations Delegations Women’s Club to Hold ‘Women for Peace’

Event at Headquarters 11 March

 

Committee on Charter

and United Nations Role

254^th Meeting (AM)

special charter committee concludes 2008 session by adopting six-chapter report;

discusses working papers proposals by member delegations

 

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

The new Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Espinosa served as Special Adviser to the President of the Constitutional Assembly from December 2007 to February 2008 and was Minister for Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Integration from January to December 2007.

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC

OF MACEDONIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.)