The United Nations and the Government of Saudi Arabia have signed a contribution agreement for the creation of the United Nations Centre for Counter-Terrorism, to which the latter will contribute $10 million over three years.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tayé-Brook Zerihoun of Ethiopia as the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs in the Department of Political Affairs. Mr. Zerihoun replaces Haile Menkerios of South Africa, who has been appointed as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan for a one-year period.

A package of projects to help Somalia and its neighbours prosecute maritime piracy suspects was approved today by a 10-nation board overseeing a new United Nations trust fund for the fight against piracy. The announcement was made at United Nations Headquarters by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, who chairs the Board of the Trust Fund to Support Initiatives of States Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia.

25 March 2009

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Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS OSCAR FERNANDEZ-TARANCO OF ARGENTINA

AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

 

21 November 2008

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URGING UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS, TROOPS, TO ‘LEAD BY EXAMPLE’,

INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION WRAPS UP 2008 HEARING AT HEADQUARTERS

20 November 2008

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INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION OPENS 2008 HEARINGS AT HEADQUARTERS

ON THEME:  EFFECTIVE PEACEKEEPING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION

1 October 2008

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United Nations integrated peacebuilding office in Sierra Leone begins mandate

to ensure continued international support FOR LONG-term peace, development

5 March 2008

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UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCES NEW ‘ON-CALL’ MEDIATION TEAM

 

TO ADVISE PEACE ENVOYS IN FIELD