Security Council

5785^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

54^th Meeting (PM)*

SPECIAL MEETING, OTHER EVENTS PLANNED AT HEADQUARTERS TO OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL DAY

OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, 29 NOVEMBER

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Second Committee

29^th Meeting (PM)

Second Committee approves text on non-legally binding instrument on forests,

 

proposed amendments to general regulations of World Food Programme

 

decent work must be at centre of government labour policies, basic social

 

protection in globalizing world, ACCORDING TO new United Nations report

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ANNAPOLIS, CALLS FOR ‘FLEXIBILITY, PATIENCE AND RESOLVE’

IN RENEWED MIDDLE EAST PEACE EFFORT

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech at the international meeting on the Middle East, in Annapolis, 27 November:

MIDDLE EAST QUARTET EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE

 

Following is the text of the statement issued yesterday in Washington, D.C., by the Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union):

Security Council

5784^th Meeting (PM)

Under-Secretary-General reports progress in darfur peacekeeping efforts,

 

but tells Security Council of obstacles to political process

In Joint Briefing with Special Envoy, Sudan, Rebels

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

53^rd Meeting (AM)

THIRD COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN, AS IT APPROVES FIVE DRAFT TEXTS

Parties to United Nations Convention

to Combat Desertification

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM, PM & Night)

CONFERENCE OF PARTIES, IN FIRST EXTRAORDINARY SESSION, APPROVES 2008-2009 BUDGET

FOR UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION