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Activities of Secretary-General in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-25 September

SG/T/2698

Activities of Secretary-General in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-25 September

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, travelled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to join world leaders at the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit hosted by United States President Barack Obama. The Secretary-General arrived in Pittsburgh by commercial flight from New York in the late afternoon of Thursday, 24 September.

What Was Once Seen as Security Council Interference in Domestic Affairs Now Viewed as States ‘Coming Together for Common Cause’, 1540 Review Hears Upon Closing

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What Was Once Seen as Security Council Interference in Domestic Affairs Now Viewed as States ‘Coming Together for Common Cause’, 1540 Review Hears Upon Closing

For global efforts to succeed in preventing mass destruction weapons from falling into the hands of non-State actors, individual countries needed practical, targeted assistance to close current dangerous gaps in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004), participants in a comprehensive review on that legally binding resolution said today as three days of meetings concluded.

Budget Committee Takes Up Scale for Assessing Member States Dues for 2010-2013, with Speakers Stressing Importance of ‘Capacity to Pay’ Principle

GA/AB/3917

Budget Committee Takes Up Scale for Assessing Member States Dues for 2010-2013, with Speakers Stressing Importance of ‘Capacity to Pay’ Principle

As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) took up the scale for determining Member States’ dues to the Organization’s budget in 2010-2012, the delegates emphasized the importance of following the principle of capacity to pay as the fundamental criterion in the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations and considered the main elements of the methodology used to calculate the assessments.

Disarmament Remains ‘Burning Problem of Our Time’, But Today’s World Capable of Solving Problem, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee as Debate Opens

GA/DIS/3384

Disarmament Remains ‘Burning Problem of Our Time’, But Today’s World Capable of Solving Problem, Disarmament Chief Tells First Committee as Debate Opens

With some 23,000 nuclear weapons reportedly still in existence, thousands of missiles and bombers to deliver them, weapons of mass destruction treaties short of universal membership and a large and growing agenda for conventional arms control, it was very difficult to dispute that achievement of the disarmament goals remained “the burning problem of our time”, Sergio Duarte, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, told the Disarmament Committee.

General Assembly’s Legal Committee Reviews New, Comprehensive System for Administration of Justice at United Nations

GA/L/3361

General Assembly’s Legal Committee Reviews New, Comprehensive System for Administration of Justice at United Nations

As the Sixth Committee (Legal) today addressed the organization of its work for 2009, and reviewed the new system of administering justice at the United Nations, which had been introduced earlier this year and was generally welcomed, concerns were expressed about certain structural details of the new system, which is now subject to formalization by the General Assembly.
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