UN MEDIA SEMINAR ON MIDDLE EAST OPENS AMID ‘GREAT UNCERTAINTY AND DIFFICULTY’;

MEETING AIMS TO BOOST CONFIDENCE FROM BOTTOM UP, SAYS COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF

Violence Cause for Dismay, Not Despair, Secretary-General

Says, Urging Media, Civil Society to Spread Message of Coexistence

Security Council

5706^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL DIPLOMATS WELCOME ACCEPTANCE OF HYBRID FORCE FOR DARFUR,

WHILE STRESSING NEED TO KEEP PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT, REBELS

Members of Mission to Africa Report on Visits

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS COMMEMORATION OF POET MAULANA RUMI CAN MOTIVATE WORK

OF UNITED NATIONS ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS, ENSURE ITS ULTIMATE SUCCESS

Following is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the commemoration of Afghan philosopher and poet Maulana Rumi, in New York 26 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION FOR DEVELOPING EXCITING NEW

TOOLS FOR INTEGRATED RECOVERY STRATEGIES, IN SPEECH TO CLOSING OF FIRST SESSION

STATEMENT BY MIDDLE EAST QUARTET

 

Following is the text of a statement issued by the Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union):

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SEMINAR ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONCLUDES WITH PARTICIPANTS

UNDERLINING IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION AMID TENSION, STRIFE

Under-Secretary-General, in Closing Statement

To Final Panel Discussion, Hopes for Peace, Prosperity, Peace in Region

Special Committee on

Decolonization

9^th Meeting (AM)

Peacebuilding Commission

Organizational Committee

10^th Meeting* (AM)

Secretary-General underscores national ownership, international partnership

in consolidating peace, as Peacebuilding Commission ends first session

In First Meeting of Next Session,

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

58^th Meeting (PM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CREATION OF NEW DEPARTMENT OF FIELD SUPPORT

AS IT APPROVES KEY OVERHAUL OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING

 

Text Calls for Offices of Military Affairs, Rule of Law

SECRETARY-GENERAL HOPES FOR PEACEFUL DEMOCRATIC EXERCISE IN TIMOR-LESTE POLLS

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message ahead of parliamentary elections in Timor-Leste to be held on 30 June: