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.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION

IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

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

United Nations suspends Côte d’Ivoire peacekeeping contingent; full investigation

of sexual exploitation allegations under way

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (PM)

General committee recommends against inclusion of new agenda item

on ‘contemporary forms of xenophobia’

 

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS DECISIONS ON RECOMMENDATIONS CONTAINED

IN REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

(Reissued as received.)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS COORDINATION SEGMENT, CONSIDERS REPORTS

OF COORDINATION BODIES, REPORTS ON HAITI, GUINEA-BISSAU

 

(Reissued as received.)

Iraq in difficult transition, needs international community’s support to face

Daunting challenges, says Deputy Secretary-General in New York Meeting

 

STATEMENT BY MIDDLE EAST QUARTET

 

The following statement was issued today by the Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union):