Background Release

UNITED NATIONS INDIGENOUS FORUM’S SIXTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 14-25 MAY;

RIGHTS TO LANDS, TERRITORIES, NATURAL RESOURCES FOCUS

 

CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM MEETS IN PRETORIA

 

Speakers Agree Role of Civil Society Central to Palestinian Cause:

Activists Urged to Mobilize, Pressure Governments to End Occupation

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Statement by Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee on appointment

 

of experts to Board of United Nations Register of Damage

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM & PM Meetings

GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON ‘CIVILIZATIONS AND THE CHALLENGE FOR PEACE’ CONCLUDES;

ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS DIALOGUE ‘GATEWAY TO CHANGE’

 

Second-Day Panels Focus on: ‘The Responsibility of the Media’;

Commission on Sustainable Development

Fifteenth Session

11^th & 12^th Meetings (AM, PM & Night)

FIRST SESSION OF PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2010 NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

REVIEW CONFERENCE ENDS WITH ADOPTION OF REPORT

 

Background Release

United Nations Committee Monitoring Discrimination against Women

to meet at headquarters, 14 May – 1 June

 

Will Consider Reports by Mauritania , Mozambique,

Niger , Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Vanuatu

Secretary-General urges policies, technologies to ‘connect young people’,

 

create truly open, inclusive information society, in world day message

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed 17 May:

Secretary-General greatly encouraged by peaceful conduct

 

of presidential elections in timor-leste

 

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

Diversity driver of human progress, not threat, Secretary-General says

in remarks to General Assembly informal debate