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SG/2147
15 December 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/2147
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

STATEMENT BY MIDDLE EAST QUARTET

 


Following is the text of the statement issued today in New York by the Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union):

GA/10799
15 December 2008
General AssemblyGA/10799
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

69th Meeting (AM)


CALLING FOR DECISIVE ACTION TO LESSEN IMPACT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS, DEPUTY


SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ASSEMBLY:  ‘OUR DESTINIES ARE DEEPLY INTERCONNECTED’

SG/T/2636

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Poznan, Poland, in the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 December, from New York via a stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.

PBC/45-PI/1870
12 December 2008
Press ReleasePBC/45
PI/1870
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

FAR-REACHING ‘FOURTH ESTATE’ MERITS INTERNATIONAL FUNDING, PARTICIPANTS IN MEETING


ON ‘MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS IN PEACEBUILDING’ DECIDE AMID CONFLICTING VIEWS


Views Expressed at Conference Be Compiled into Document on ‘The Way Forward’

SG/SM/11999-HRC/10
12 December 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11999
HRC/10
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, SAYS WORK TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION’S


PRINCIPLES MUST CONTINUE UNTIL THEY ARE ‘FOUNDATION OF LIFE’ FOR ALL PEOPLE


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, 12 December: