Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

300^th Meeting (AM)

Note to Correspondents

FACT SHEET ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will co-launch with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the International Compact with Iraq in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, on 3 May:

Security Council

5668^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL LIFTS BAN ON LIBERIAN DIAMONDS,

 

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1753 (2007)

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILES IN MESSAGE

 

MARKING TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CONVENTION’S ENTRY INTO FORCE

 

Committee on Information

Twenty-ninth Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF UNITED STATES PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

Zalmay Khalilzad, the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

parliaments will help define national, global engagement on climate change,

says secretary-general, in message to Inter-Parliamentary Union bali meeting

Security Council

5671^st Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES GRAVE CONCERN AT RENEWED FIGHTING IN SOMALIA,

CONDEMNS INDISCRIMINATE SHELLING IN MOGADISHU

 

Presidential Statement Calls on Parties to End Hostilities,

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES VIENNA MEETING TO ADDRESS ‘PERSISTING CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE’

IN NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

ATTACKS ON PRESS FREEDOM ARE ATTACKS ‘AGAINST EVERYTHING UNITED NATIONS

STANDS FOR’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for World Press Freedom Day, observed on 3 May: