ATTACKS AGAINST UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL CONTINUED UNABATED IN 2008,

UNITED NATIONS STAFF UNION REPORTS

 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA

 

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

AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY Japan

 

“The Security Council is not a debating society, it is a place to decide,” the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations said today at Headquarters.

Press conference on humanitarian situation in gaza

 

Secretary-General ‘HEARtened and relieved’ by Security Council’s

adoption of resolution aimed at ending tragic gaza crisis

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the Security Council on 8 January:

Security Council

6063^rd Meeting (Night)

Secretary-General strongly condemns rocket fire against Israel from southern

Lebanon; urges both parties to exercise maximum restraint

 

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

TROUBLED BY ESCALATING GAZA VIOLENCE, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CALLS SITUATION

‘UNACCEPTABLE AND UNTENABLE’; URGES SECURITY COUNCIL TO FULFIL CHARTER MANDATE

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 Michèle Montas, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Good afternoon, all.

**Guests at Noon