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SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC NEAR SUDAN BORDER

SG/SM/10730-AFR/1460
10 November 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10730
AFR/1460
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION


IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC NEAR SUDAN BORDER

 


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

IMPROVED TRANSPORT FACILITIES KEY TO ECONOMIC GROWTH, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS UNITED NATIONS ASIA-PACIFIC MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE

SG/SM/10725-REC/205
10 November 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10725
REC/205
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

IMPROVED TRANSPORT FACILITIES KEY TO ECONOMIC GROWTH, SECRETARY-GENERAL


TELLS UNITED NATIONS ASIA-PACIFIC MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE

 

‘NO TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AS WOMEN’S COMMISSION MARKS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY

WOM/1586
10 November 2006
Economic and Social CouncilWOM/1586
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Women’s Commission

60th Anniversary

Round Table (PM)


 ‘NO TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN,’ SAYS


SECRETARY-GENERAL AS WOMEN’S COMMISSION MARKS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY

 

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CONDEMNING HOSTAGE-TAKING; HEARS REPORT BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT

GA/SHC/3871
10 November 2006
General AssemblyGA/SHC/3871
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

44th Meeting (PM)


THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CONDEMNING HOSTAGE-TAKING;

 

HEARS REPORT BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 


Support Expressed for Convention on Enforced Disappearances;

UNITED NATIONS MILITARY, POLICE DEPLOYMENT REACHES ALL-TIME HIGH IN OCTOBER

PKO/152
10 November 2006
Press ReleasePKO/152
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Military, Police Deployment Reaches All-time High in October


United Nations peacekeeping deployment reached a historic high at the end of October, with 80,976 military and police personnel and some 15,000 civilians serving in peace operations around the world.

IN SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY REMARKS, SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS PROGRESS BROUGHT ABOUT BY COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

SG/SM/10727-WOM/1587
10 November 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10727
WOM/1587
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

IN SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY REMARKS, SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS


PROGRESS BROUGHT ABOUT BY COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

 


This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at a round table to mark the sixtieth anniversary if the Commission on the Status of Women:

SECOND COMMITTEE PASSES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING ON ISRAEL NOT TO EXPLOIT, DAMAGE OR DEPLETE NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS

GA/EF/3167
10 November 2006
General AssemblyGA/EF/3167
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

27th & 28th Meetings (AM & PM)


SECOND COMMITTEE PASSES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING ON ISRAEL NOT TO EXPLOIT,


DAMAGE OR DEPLETE NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS LUIZ CARLOS DA COSTA OF BRAZIL AS PRINCIPAL DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI

SG/A/1026-BIO/3816-PKO/153
10 November 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/A/1026
BIO/3816*
PKO/153
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS LUIZ CARLOS DA COSTA OF BRAZIL AS PRINCIPAL DEPUTY


SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI