SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE, STRESSES

ACADEMIA’S ROLE IN GUIDING MORE EFFECTIVE POLICIES, PRACTICES

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

45^th Meeting (PM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

52^nd & 53^rd Meetings (AM & PM)

Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

PM Meeting

panellists highlight staffing, funding weaknesses as they discuss

challenges, expectations facing peacebuilding commission

 

Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

AM Meeting

keys to conflict prevention, peacebuilding spelt out as joint

United Nations, inter-parliamentary union hearing begins

 

FORUM AT UNITED NATIONS 15-16 NOVEMBER TO DISCUSS NOVEL WAYS TO REDUCE POVERTY

Security Council

5565^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO ADOPT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON MIDDLE EAST,

OWING TO NEGATIVE VOTE BY UNITED STATES

Vote is 10 in Favour to 1 against,

With 4 Abstentions (United Kingdom, Denmark, Japan, Slovakia)

Women’s Commission

60^th Anniversary

Round Table (PM)

 ‘NO TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN,’ SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL AS WOMEN’S COMMISSION MARKS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION

IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC NEAR SUDAN BORDER

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL OPENS SPECIAL OLYMPICS EXHIBIT, SAYS GAMES CAN ADVANCE STRUGGLE

AGAINST DISCRIMINATION; CITES EXPECTED HISTORIC ADOPTION OF DISABILITIES TREATY

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks today at the opening of the 2007 Shanghai Special Olympics exhibit in New York: