DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SUCCESS OF SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MDG AFRICA INITIATIVE

RESTS ON GOVERNMENTS’ WILLINGNESS TO SUSTAIN OWNERSHIP OF DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

77^th Meeting (PM)*

GENERAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY

OF MARINE RESOURCES, ADOPTING 13-PART CONSENSUS TEXT

 

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing; Compliance and Enforcement;

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

76^th & 77^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS LANDMARK TEXT CALLING FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY

Adopts 54 Resolutions, 12 Decisions Recommended by Third Committee

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP BUDGET IMPLICATIONS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ANTI-RACISM TEXT, INCLUDING 2009 DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE

 

Security Council

5809^th Meeting (AM)

Security Council extends integrated office in burundi until 31 December 2008,

unanimously adopting resolution 1791 (2007)

 

Security Council

5810^th Meeting (AM)

Security Council renews arms, travel bans on Liberia for further year,

Unanimously adopting resolution 1792 (2007)

 

FIRST ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS FORUM TO BE HELD IN MADRID 15-16 JANUARY 2008

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENTS TO ENSURE SAFETY,

SECURITY OF UNITED NATIONS STAFF IN HOST COUNTRIES

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to Headquarters staff in New York on his return from Algiers, 19 December:

Peacebuilding Commission

Organizational Committee

5^th Meeting (AM)

Guinea-Bissau added to agenda of peacebuilding commission;

 

brazil elected chair of country-specific configuration

 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORKING GROUP ADOPTS STRATEGY ON ASSISTANCE

FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, ABUSE BY UN PERSONNEL