SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS VOLUNTEERS PLAY INDISPENSABLE ROLE IN TACKLING VAST,

COMPLEX GLOBAL CHALLENGES, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY

Following is the text of the message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for the commemorational of International Volunteer Day, observed 5 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE TO ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE

STRESSES NEED FOR BETTER, MORE EFFICIENT COOPERATION WITH UNITED NATIONS

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS VLADIMIR GORYAYEV OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF UNITED NATIONS REGISTER OF DAMAGE

 

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON LIBERIA REMOVES ONE INDIVIDUAL

 

FROM TRAVEL BAN, ASSETS FREEZE LISTS

 

UNITED NATIONS REPORTS IMPROVED RESPONSES TO AVIAN INFLUENZA, SEES GLOBAL

SOLIDARITY AS KEY TO BEING READY FOR FUTURE PANDEMICS

 

events to mark international day of disabled persons, 3 december,

aim at dispelling myth that those with disabilities cannot work

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

306^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

58^th Meeting (PM)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., on 26 November, to attend a meeting of the principal members of the Quartet, before travelling onward to Annapolis, Maryland, to participate in the conference there on Middle East peace.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived from Beirut early in the evening of Friday, 16 November, in Valencia, Spain.