DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES POISED TO FIND

MORE DETERMINED WAY TO ALIGN PRIORITIES WITH AFRICAN UNION, NEPAD

 

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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TUNISIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

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

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SAINT VINCENT AND GRENADINES PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

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

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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF VANUATU PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

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

Donald Kalpokas, the new Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, B. Lynn Pascoe, travelled on Friday morning to Ankara, Turkey, where they met and had a working lunch with Turkish President Abdullah Gül.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED AT RECENT FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN, UNDERLINES CRUCIAL

ROLE OF NATO, AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES IN DETERRING TERRORIST, EXTREMIST GROUPS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES STRONG DISMAY AT DETENTION IN PAKISTAN OF HUMAN

RIGHTS, OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS, INCLUDING UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR ‘HORRENDOUS AND SILENT HAZARDS’,

IN MESSAGE TO PROTOCOL V STATES PARTIES, CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

TREATY’S UNIVERSALIZATION, DESTRUCTION OF STOCKPILES BY AGREED DEADLINES

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘ROTARIANS’ BUILD BETTER LIVES FOR PEOPLE WORLDWIDE,

INCLUDING IN HIS NATIVE KOREA, IN MESSAGE TO ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DAY