Commission on Population and Development

Forty-first Session

8^th Meeting (PM)

Economic and Social Council

Special High-Level Meeting

4^th & 5^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Economic and Social Council focuses on current global challenges in annual meeting

with bretton Woods institutions, World Trade Organization

 

Secretary-General shocked by killing of member of United Nations Haiti mission,

Urges demonstrators to refrain from further violence

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Moscow in the morning of Wednesday, 9 April, for the first official visit of the Secretary-General to the Russian Federation.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT ON AGREEMENT

 

ON COMPOSITION OF KENYA’S COALITION GOVERNMENT

 

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

WORLD SUMMIT HELD TO OBSERVE UNITED NATIONS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY

AMONG HIGHLIGHTS, AS 2005 YEARBOOK OF UNITED NATIONS PUBLISHED

The fifty-ninth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the activities of the United Nations system during 2005, has been published by the Department of Public Information.

Security Council

5864^th Meeting (AM)

LIBERIA PLACE OF HOPE AFTER FOUR YEARS FREE OF CONFLICT, BUT SECURITY

 

SITUATION REMAINS FRAGILE, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

 

Special Representative Says Government Still Heavily Reliant on UN Military,

Parliaments can translate democratic governance into gains for the poor,

Says Deputy Secretary-General to cape town meeting

 

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Cape Town, 13 April:

EMERGENCY AND LONG-TERM STEPS NEEDED TO ADDRESS ESCALATING WORLD FOOD CRISIS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO SPECIAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL MEETING

Security Council PRESS STATEMENT ON HAITI

 

The following Security Council press statement on Haiti was read out today by Council President Dumisani S. Kumalo ( South Africa):