Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the closing plenary of the Fifteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Copenhagen on 19 December:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in New York, 21 December:
The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development. In adopting resolution 64/136 on 18 December, the Assembly noted that cooperatives impact poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council’s briefing by the African Union High-level Panel on the Sudan, in New York today, 21 December: