SECRETARY-GENERAL GRATIFIED BY CONDUCT OF TOKELAU’S SELF-DETERMINATION REFERENDUM

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED SUFFERING IN DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AS FIGHTING CONTINUES IN NORTH KIVU

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DONORS’ ROUND TABLE ON CENTRAL AFRICAN

REPUBLIC, CALLS FOR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF COUNTRY’S PEACE EFFORTS

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

TOKELAU FALLS SHY OF SELF-GOVERNMENT BY 16 VOTES AFTER FOUR DAYS

 

OF BALLOTING IN SELF-DETERMINATION REFERENDUM

 

ATAFU, TOKELAU, 24 October -- The result of Tokelau’s self-determination referendum was announced on the atoll of Atafu, after the fourth and final day of voting on Wednesday.

Note to Correspondents

HUMAN TRAFFICKING EXHIBITION TO OPEN AT UNITED NATIONS Headquarters

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

17^th Meeting (AM)

RUSSIAN FEDERATION , UNITED STATES CALL ON STATES TO JOIN TREATY REGIME REJECTING

INTERMEDIATE-RANGE, SHORTER-RANGE MISSILES, IN FIRST COMMITTEE DEBATE

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

10^th Meeting (AM)

PRESENTING $4.2 BILLION BUDGET FOR 2008-2009 TO ASSEMBLY’S FIFTH COMMITTEE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UN RESOURCES ‘NEVER STRETCHED SO THIN’

Delegates Differ on Priorities; Some Seek More Funds for Development,

PROMOTING RULE OF LAW ‘VERY HEART OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION’,

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fourth Committee

11^th Meeting (PM)

INVESTMENT IN HEALTH CORNERSTONE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT,

GLOBAL SECURITY, SAYS SECRETARY GENERAL, IN NEW YORK REMARKS