SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO WORLD PREMIERE OF FILM ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING,

URGES GREATER AWARENESS, ADVOCACY, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the world premiere of Trade in New York, yesterday, 19 September:

FIRST ‘TREATY EVENT’ OF SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON’S TENURE, AT HEADQUARTERS,

25-27 SEPTEMBER, 1-2 OCTOBER; HIGHLIGHTS 43 TREATIES ON BROAD RANGE OF TOPICS

Security Council

5747^th Meeting (PM)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Second Committee

1^st Meeting (PM)

Second Committee approves programme of work featuring financing

 

for development, disaster reduction, poverty eradication

 

Security Council

5745^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS LIBERIA MISSION UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2008,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1777 (2007)

 

Security Council

5746^th Meeting (AM)

NEW PUSH FOR PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST ‘HOLDS GENUINE PROMISE’,

 

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

 

B. Lynn Pascoe Says Much at Stake in Coming Months,

BUREAU OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ISSUES STATEMENT ON ISRAEL’S DECISION

TO DECLARE GAZA STRIP ‘ HOSTILE TERRITORY’

 

The following statement was issued today by the Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

Note to Correspondents

Secretary-General to designate princess, conductor, author, violinist

as United Nations messengers of peace

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES GLOBAL 24-HOUR CEASEFIRE, IN REMARKS

AT ANNUAL PEACE BELL RINGING CEREMONY

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the annual Peace Bell ceremony in New York today, 21 September:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO STUDENT PEACE DAY OBSERVANCE, SAYS YOUNG PEOPLE

ALREADY KNOW BETTER THAN TO REPEAT MISTAKES OF PAST