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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO ISTANBUL MEETING, SAYS IT IS IN BEST INTEREST

 

Security Council condemns attack on military bus in kabul

 

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This is the text of a press statement by the President of the Security Council, Jean-Maurice Ripert ( France), on 30 September:

HIGH-LEVEL MEETING TO EXAMINE E-GOVERNMENT PROJECTS IN CARIBBEAN

 

A High-Level Steering Committee Meeting 6 November will examine the outcome of two projects of e-government in Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fourth Committee

16^th Meeting (PM)