DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN NEW YORK ADDRESS, SAYS ACTION NEEDED NOW TO ACHIEVE

ANTI-POVERTY GOALS -- ‘OUR COMMON VISION FOR A BETTER WORLD’

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ-KUWAIT

 

The following Security Council statement to the press on Iraq-Kuwait was read out today by Council President Johan Verbeke ( Belgium):

Peacebuilding Commission

Organizational Committee

8^th Meeting (AM)

Guidelines for civil society participation in peacebuilding commission

Approved by organizational committee

 

Note to Correspondents

Special Committee on

Decolonization

4^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

56^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PROPOSALS AIMED AT STRENGTHENING

PEACEKEEPING, IN FACE OF GROWING DEMAND, COMPLEXITY

 

LAUNCHING LATEST AFRICA REPORT, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES SOME ‘GOOD NEWS’

TOWARDS ATTAINING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, URGES SCALED UP INTERVENTIONS

Africa’s progress disproves distorted portrayal of continent as ‘ sea of conflict

 

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GHANA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

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

ADDRESSING WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL

ASKS UN SYSTEM TO USE ENERGY MORE EFFICIENTLY AND ELIMINATE WASTEFUL PRACTICES

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the World Tourism Organization in Madrid today, 5 June: