Sixty-third General Assembly

Fifth Committee

29^th Meeting (AM)

Budget committee takes up financing for United Nations business

Continuity management, as four-week resumed session opens

 

EAST AFRICA COMMUNITY MINISTERS TO MEET IN KAMPALA, UGANDA, NEXT WEEK TO EXPLORE

WAYS TO ACHIEVE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, IMPROVE LOCAL SERVICE DELIVERY

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Marie Okabe, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR RECOMMITMENT TO RIDDING WORLD OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES,

ASSISTING SURVIVORS, 10 YEARS AFTER MINE-BAN CONVENTION’S ENTRY INTO FORCE

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

Commission on Sustainable Development

Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE, URGES CLOSE

COOPERATION BETWEEN ADMINISTERING POWERS, NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

Security Council

6088^th Meeting (AM)

UNITED NATIONS REPORT SAYS AFRICAN COUNTRIES ALMOST HALFWAY TO MALARIA MILESTONE

Secretary-General, in message, says world must work together, state at highest

 

level violence against women ‘will not be tolerated in any form’

 

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed 8 March:

FRANCOPHONE VOICES SHOULD BE HEARD IN PROCESS OF ORGANIZATIONAL RENEWAL

AT UNITED NATIONS, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO SAYS

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the Francophonie, in New York on 25 February: