SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY SUICIDE ATTACKS IN KANDAHAR,

 

SAYS ‘MORALLY REPUGNANT’ ACT SETBACK TO PEACE EFFORTS

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PRINCE OF WALES’ RAINFOREST PROJECT RECALLS NEED FOR LOFTY

PRINCIPLES TO BE TETHERED TO PRACTICAL WORKS TO MEET CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

5^th & 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

delegates in commission on population and development share national

experiences of reducing mortality, empowering women

 

AVOID FOCUS ON PAST SETBACKS IN AFGHANISTAN, SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS,

HELP AFGHANS SECURE NEW VISION FOR FUTURE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the International Conference on Afghanistan, in The Hague on 31 March:

Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

78^th Meeting (PM)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Doha, Qatar, from Moscow, Russian Federation, on the evening of Saturday, 28 March.  He was greeted by Madam Ban Soon-taek, who had arrived before him, directly from New York.

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

Delegates debate effects of reduced fertility as commission on population

and development continues forty-second session

 

In Keynote Address, Speaker Stresses Access

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES UNITED STATES INTENTION TO SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SEAT;

SAYS CONCRETE EMBODIMENT OF COUNTRY’S COMMITMENT TO ‘NEW ERA OF ENGAGEMENT’

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Human Rights Committee

Ninety-fifth Session

2621^st Meeting* (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS POSSIBLE CHANGES TO RULES OF PROCEDURE GOVERNING

SUBMISSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS UNDER OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

Proposal Submitted on Undue Delay in Submitting Communications

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Moscow in the Russian Federation during the afternoon of Thursday, 26 March.