CLAIMING ‘UNACCEPTABLE VIOLATION’, UNITED NATIONS STAFF UNION CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE

 

RELEASE OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME OFFICIAL DETAINED IN SOMALIA

 

Note to Correspondents

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fourth Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

TELLING UNITED NATIONS STORY REQUIRED METHOD, PURPOSE; AS ‘MEGAPHONE’, DEPARTMENT

OF PUBLIC INFORMATION GUIDED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S VISION, FOURTH COMMITTEE TOLD

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES RESOLUTION URGING STATES TO STRENGTHEN

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO PREVENT, SUPPRESS TERRORISM

Sixty-second General Assembly

Second Committee

10^th & 11^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SPEAKERS STRESS NATIONAL OWNERSHIP OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS, EMPOWERING LOCAL PEOPLE,

AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

11^th Meeting (PM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

27^th & 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

AFRICAN STATES WARN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROMISE OF DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP

UNDERMINED BY UNDELIVERED AID, RESTRICTIVE TRADE, DEBT

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR POLITICAL WILL ‘TO END THE SCOURGE OF POVERTY

ONCE AND FOR ALL’, IN REMARKS AT INTERNATIONAL EVENT

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS SOMALIA’S DETENTION OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL

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