Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

48^th Meeting (AM)

Speakers in budget committee stress need for stronger management,

budgetary discipline in face of rising peacekeeping costs

 

Wide Range of Reports Taken Up, Including from Board

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES SUDAN TO END ATTACKS FOLLOWING DARFUR BOMBARDMENTS

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES B’NAI B’RITH INTERNATIONAL FOR IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS

TO ‘OUR SHARED MISSION’ OF PROMOTING PEACE, DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN DIGNITY

AFRICAN MEETING CONSIDERS SITUATION ON GROUND IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

EXPERTS AT AFRICAN MEETING WEIGH INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS

 

TO END ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Secretary-General urges policies, technologies to ‘connect young people’,

 

create truly open, inclusive information society, in world day message

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed 17 May:

UNITED NATIONS AFRICAN MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE CONCLUDES

 

WITH ADOPTION OF FINAL DOCUMENT

 

Participants Welcome New Global Efforts to Revive Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Diversity driver of human progress, not threat, Secretary-General says

in remarks to General Assembly informal debate

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

49^th Meeting (AM)

FIFTH COMMITTEE TAKES UP $5.4 BILLION 2007-2008 PEACEKEEPING BUDGET;

COVERS 13 ACTIVE MISSIONS, LOGISTICS BASE, SUPPORT ACCOUNT

 

Secretary-General appoints board memberS of united nations register of damage

caused by construction of wall in occupied palestinian territory