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SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO ADOPT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON MYANMAR, OWING TO NEGATIVE VOTES BY CHINA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

SC/8939
12 January 2007
Security CouncilSC/8939
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Security Council

5619th Meeting (PM)


SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO ADOPT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON MYANMAR,

 

OWING TO NEGATIVE VOTES BY CHINA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION


Vote is 9 in Favour to 3 Against, with 3 Abstentions

SECURITY COUNCIL CONFRONTS AMBITIOUS AGENDA IN 2006, BROKERING CEASEFIRES, EASING DIFFICULT TRANSITIONS, BLUNTING RELAPSES INTO CONFLICT

SC/8940
12 January 2007
Security CouncilSC/8940
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Security Council

2006 Round-up


SECURITY COUNCIL CONFRONTS AMBITIOUS AGENDA IN 2006, BROKERING CEASEFIRES,


EASING DIFFICULT TRANSITIONS, BLUNTING RELAPSES INTO CONFLICT


Major Concerns Addressed Include War in Lebanon, Arab-Israeli

UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION TREATY OPENS CURRENT SESSION

WOM/1589
15 January 2007
General AssemblyWOM/1589
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

756th Meeting (AM)


United Nations committee monitoring compliance with women’s


anti-discrimination treaty opens current session

 


To Consider Austria, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Greece, India, Kazakhstan,

SECURITY COUNCIL REQUESTS DISPATCH OF ADVANCE TEAM TO CHAD, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO EXPLORE POSSIBLE UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN BORDER AREAS

SC/8941
16 January 2007
Security CouncilSC/8941
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Security Council

5621st Meeting* (PM)


Security Council requests dispatch of advance team to chad, Central African Republic


to explore possible United Nations mission in border areas

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MARK EL SALVADOR PEACE ACCORDS, CALLS THEM POINT OF REFERENCE FOR UNITED NATIONS

SG/SM/10841-CA/33
16 January 2007
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10841
CA/33
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Secretary-General, in message to mark el salvador peace accords,


calls them point of reference for United Nations

 


Following is the text of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the fifteenth anniversary of the El Salvador Peace Accords, today, 16 January:

UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN BURUNDI PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OPENS AT HEADQUARTERS

Note No. 6058
16 January 2007
Press ReleaseNote No. 6058
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Note to Correspondents


UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN BURUNDI PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OPENS AT HEADQUARTERS


A photographic exhibition entitled “Burundi:  From Conflict to Peacebuilding” will open in the South Gallery of the General Assembly Visitors’ Lobby on Thursday, 18 January, at 5 p.m.

PROGRESS MADE IN MAINSTREAMING GENDER EQUALITY INTO POLAND’S NATIONAL LEGISLATION, WOMEN’S ANTI-DESCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

WOM/1591
16 January 2007
General AssemblyWOM/1591
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PROGRESS MADE IN MAINSTREAMING GENDER EQUALITY INTO POLAND’S NATIONAL


LEGISLATION, WOMEN’S ANTI-DESCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

 


But Committee Experts Express Concern over Focus on Labour,

Employment; Say Government Action Should Address All Aspects of Convention