Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

PM Meeting

panellists highlight staffing, funding weaknesses as they discuss

challenges, expectations facing peacebuilding commission

 

Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

PM Meeting

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGy CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL, ESPECIALLY PERSONS

WITH DISABILITIES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN OBSERVANCE OF DISABLED PERSONS DAY

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day of Disabled Persons, observed on 3 December:

Receiving honour in Kenya, Secretary-General stresses need to prevent

country-specific problems from becoming regional issues

 

In message for international day, Secretary-General calls for creation

 

of environment ‘where violence against women is not tolerated’

 

Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

AM Meeting

‘GOOD GOVERNANCE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION’ THEME

 

OF UNITED NATIONS, INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION PANEL

 

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the late afternoon on Sunday, 12 November, in Istanbul, Turkey, after a brief stopover in Zurich, Switzerland. Turkey would be the first stop in a four-nation visit that would also take him to Kenya, Ethiopia and Switzerland.

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

29^th Meeting (AM)

TEN NEW FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN OCEAN AFFAIRS

Secretary-General welcomes provisional results in Democratic Republic of Congo

 

elections; Urges all parties to remain calm, refrain from any violence

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