Just one day shy of its anticipated deadline, the Commission on Sustainable Development today heard from experts in four intensive round table meetings, and held subsequent discussions aimed at advancing the adoption tomorrow of a strong outcome document for the Commission’s 2011 policy session.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the UNA-USA [United Nations Association-United States of America] Global Classrooms Model UN Conference in New York on 12 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the nineteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development in New York today, 13 May:

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

A new partnership to assist local communities in managing ever-increasing amounts of waste — and the growing presence of chemicals and hazardous and toxic elements in the general waste stream — was launched today at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the WSIS [World Summit on the Information Society] Forum 2011, to be held in Geneva on 16 May:

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

The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) until 31 July 2011, also authorizing the Secretary-General to extend until 30 June 2011 the temporary redeployment of equipment from the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to UNOCI.

Secretariat officials today laid out their financing proposals for the 2011/12 period for four peacekeeping operations — the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and support for African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) — to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today at its second resumed session.

Twenty years after participants to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro first recognized that unsustainable consumption and production patterns formed the biggest threat to the Earth’s capacity to satisfy human needs, that challenge continued to loom large and finding a framework to control it must be seen as a strategic priority, the Commission on Sustainable Development was told today, as it opened its three-day high-level segment.