SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF JEANE KIRKPATRICK; SAYS FORMER

 

UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR COMMITTED TO EFFECTIVE UNITED NATIONS

 

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

Secretary-General urges human rights activists to ‘fill leadership vacuum’,

hold world leaders to account, in address to international day event

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to mark International Human Rights Day in New York City, 8 December:

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

71^st Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR ‘IMMEDIATE ACTION’ TO SUSTAINABLY MANAGE FISH STOCKS,

PROTECT DEEP SEA ECOSYSTEMS FROM HARMFUL FISHING PRACTICES

 

Adopts Consensus ‘Sustainable Fisheries’ Resolution;

WORLD HAS MORAL OBLIGATION TO FIGHT POVERTY, PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS OF MOST VULNERABLE,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT IN HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MESSAGE

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

34^th Meeting (AM)

SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CURRENT SESSION WITH CALL FOR COOPERATION

TOWARDS ACHIEVING CLIMATE CHANGE GOALS

 

Adopts 11 Draft Resolutions Covering Issues Ranging from Sustainable

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

55^th Meeting (AM)

Concluding current session, third committee approves draft decision

 

on programme planning concerning human rights

 

THANKS TO UNICEF, WORLD UNDERSTANDS BUILDING BETTER FUTURE STARTS WITH CHILDREN,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

70^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ENCOURAGED BY ORDERLY CONDUCT

OF ELECTION IN INDONESIA’S ACEH PROVINCE

 

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

Secretary-General welcomes announced resumption

 

of six-party talks on Korean peninsula

 

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