CONTINUING HUNGER ‘DEEP STAIN ON OUR WORLD’, BUT WEALTH, KNOW-HOW EXIST ‘TO REMOVE

IT –- FOREVER’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO HIGH-LEVEL MADRID MEETING

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, SPAIN’S PRIME MINISTER ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT

 

FOLLOWING FOOD SECURITY MEETING IN MADRID

 

Following is the text of a joint statement by Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued today in Madrid, Spain:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IMMEDIATE, ABSOLUTE PRIORITY MUST BE GIVEN TO PROTECTION

OF CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN INTENSIFIED FIGHTING IN VANNI REGION OF SRI LANKA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS HOSTILITIES IN NORTH DARFUR,

 

SAYS CONTINUED MILITARY ACTIONS JEOPARDIZING POLITICAL PROCESS

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

AT HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD MUST REAFFIRM FAITH

IN HUMAN DIGNITY, ‘OUR MORAL STRENGTH –- EVEN AMID HISTORY’S DARKEST CHAPTERS’

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS, AFTER GAZA TRIP, ‘MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER TO SEE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES UNITED STATES DECISION TO START PROCESS

FOR CLOSING GUANTÁNAMO BAY DETENTION FACILITY

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL RELYING ON GROUP OF 77 TO PLAY STRONG ROLE, AS GLOBAL

CHALLENGES THREATEN TO UNDO PROGRESS TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT GOALS

U thant’s life of public service informed by vision of truly global society, Spirit

of ‘one world’, says Secretary-General, in message to 100^th birthday event

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE EXAMINING COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICIES,

URGES ‘FOCUS ON PEOPLE’, AS ISSUE IS ABOUT HUMAN SUFFERING, NOT STATISTICS