SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ANNUAL PARLIAMENTARY HEARING THAT UNITED NATIONS VIEWS

INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION AS ESSENTIAL PARTNER IN ENFORCING RULE OF LAW

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

55^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS ‘DECADE OF RECOVERY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’

FOR COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY 1986 CHERNOBYL DISASTER

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS ON NEW CHARTER;

 

SAYS ‘HISTORIC STEP’ TOWARDS CLOSER INTEGRATION, COOPERATION

 

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

Security Council

5782^nd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES EUROPEAN UNION FORCE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

 

Security Council

5783^rd Meeting (AM)

UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION TO BOOST PROGRESS

IN PROVIDING PROPER FACILITIES FOR 2.6 BILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE

CLIMATE CHANGE, BUDGET, CAPITAL MASTER PLAN, MIDDLE EAST AMONG ISSUES

AS SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS INFORMAL MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s briefing to an informal meeting of the General Assembly in New York, 21 November:

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

51^st & 52^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES 11 MORE DRAFTS FOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING ONE MORE

COUNTRY-SPECIFIC text THAT AGAIN DRAWS HEAVY CRITICISM

 

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS, RED CRESCENT

‘INSTITUTIONALLY AGILE’ IN PURSUIT OF SHARED HUMANITARIAN, DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Secretary-General, in message to world tourism organization assembly,

hails links with issues at top of United Nations agenda