AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS, NEPAL ON ESTABLISHMENT

IN KATHMANDU OF UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL CENTRE FOR DISARMAMENT

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

792^ndMeeting(AM)

session commemorating twenty-fifth anniversary highlights achievements

of women’s anti-discrimination committee

 

Participants Outline Vision for Way Forward, Assess Future Challenges

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF FORMER KING OF AFGHANISTAN;

 

‘FATHER OF THE NATION’ LENT PRESTIGE TO DEMOCRACY, RECONCILIATION

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL REQUESTS NETHERLANDS TO HOST LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL

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

Security Council

5721^st Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION

IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

Presidential Statement Urges All Actors to Refrain

Security Council

5720^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS TEXTS CONCERNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS

 

Holds General Discussion on Economic and Environmental Questions

(Reissued as received.)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS TWO RESOLUTIONS ON REGIONAL COMMISSIONS

Discusses Independence of Colonial Countries, Regional Cooperation,

Israeli Occupied Territories, HIV/AIDS and Genetic Privacy and Bioethics

(Reissued as received.)

Background Release

UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE MONITORING ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION

AGAINST WOMEN TO CELEBRATE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

 

Will Consider Reports of 15 States

Parties at Thirty-Ninth Session, 23 July - 10 August

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday, 19 July, to attend a meeting of the principal members of the Middle East Quartet.