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Fifth Committee Takes Up First Performance Report for 2010-2011 Budget Cycle, Increased Regular Budget Funding for Sierra Leone Tribunal

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Fifth Committee Takes Up First Performance Report for 2010-2011 Budget Cycle, Increased Regular Budget Funding for Sierra Leone Tribunal

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today took up the Secretariat’s review of the first year of the 2010-2011 budget cycle, an annual exercise that re-evaluated budget requirements for the current two-year biennium downwards by $36.5 million, or less than 1 per cent, to $4.57 billion.

General Assembly Adopts 10 Resolutions Aimed at Shoring up Shared Response of United Nations, Regional Organizations to Complex Global Challenges

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General Assembly Adopts 10 Resolutions Aimed at Shoring up Shared Response of United Nations, Regional Organizations to Complex Global Challenges

Capping a day of debate aimed at forging a flexible and effective shared response to the present complex political, economic and social challenges, the General Assembly today adopted a raft of consensus texts urging more cooperation — among States and between the United Nations and various regions and treaty bodies — on everything from environmental management and transit construction to the broader spheres of trade, economic integration, security and peacebuilding.

Security Council Allows Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Judges to Serve beyond Term of Office to Complete Cases, Adopting Resolution 1954 (2010)

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Security Council Allows Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Judges to Serve beyond Term of Office to Complete Cases, Adopting Resolution 1954 (2010)

Urging the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to take all possible measures to complete its work, the Security Council today allowed two judges to serve beyond the expiry of their term of office to enable them to complete work on cases in which they were involved.

Security Council Allows Judges for Rwanda Criminal Tribunal to Complete Cases, Temporarily Increases Number of Ad Litem Judges, by Resolution 1955 (2010)

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Security Council Allows Judges for Rwanda Criminal Tribunal to Complete Cases, Temporarily Increases Number of Ad Litem Judges, by Resolution 1955 (2010)

The Security Council, while urging the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to take all possible measures to complete its work expeditiously, today allowed three of its judges to serve beyond the expiry of their term of office so they could complete work on cases in which they were involved.

Security Council, in Presidential Statement, Supports Mandate Extension for United Nations Integrated Office in Central African Republic

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Security Council, in Presidential Statement, Supports Mandate Extension for United Nations Integrated Office in Central African Republic

In order to continue addressing core peacebuilding priorities in the Central African Republic, the Security Council this morning supported a one-year mandate extension for the United Nations Integrated Office in that country, until 31 December 2011.

Fifteen Years of Turkmenistan’s Permanent Neutrality Brought Steady Realization of Nation’s Aspiration to Become Force for Progress, Says Secretary-General

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Fifteen Years of Turkmenistan’s Permanent Neutrality Brought Steady Realization of Nation’s Aspiration to Become Force for Progress, Says Secretary-General

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the International Conference on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Turkmenistan’s Permanent Neutrality, in Ashgabat, 11 December:
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