Security Council                                            SC/9517

NEW TREATY BANNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS OPENS FOR SIGNATURE IN OSLO

NEW YORK, 3 December (UN Mine Action Service)-- An international treaty that prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions is opening for signature in Oslo, Norway today.

Security Council

6028^th Meeting (AM)

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR SAYS SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD BE PREPARED

FOR ‘UNITED ACTION’ TO ENSURE EXECUTION OF SUDANESE PRESIDENT’S ARREST WARRANT

Says Sudan’s President Pursuing Plan to Destroy Entire Groups of People,

UN COMMUNICATIONS HEAD PRAISES ROLE OF ‘VISIONARY AND COURAGEOUS’ CIVIL SOCIETY

ACTORS, AS INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SEMINAR ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE CONCLUDES

Joint Infrastructure Projects in Palestinian Territories

Discussed in Final Panel on the Israeli-Palestinian Civil Society Initiative

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ON INTERNATIONAL DAY, SAYS UN REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING

ACCESSIBILITY -- DIGITAL, POLITICAL, PHYSICAL -- FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Security Council

6030^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, MEETING AT LIBYA’S REQUEST, HEARS DIFFERING ACCOUNTS OF VESSEL

REFUSED AT GAZA PORT; DELEGATE INVITES VERIFICATION OF ITS HUMANITARIAN AIMS

No Member State Would Allow Shipment from Hostile Nation into Its Territory,

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS COURAGEOUS ‘ROOTS OF PEACE’ ORGANIZATION FOR LEADERSHIP

IN EFFORTS ‘TO REPLACE THE DETRITUS OF WAR WITH THE FRUITS OF PEACE’

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Roots of Peace “Harvest of Hope” gala in Washington, D.C., 3 December:

MIDDLE EAST PEACE CAN, AND MUST, BE PROMOTED NOT ONLY AT POLITICAL LEVEL,

BUT AT GRASS ROOTS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO VIENNA SEMINAR

 

Security Council

6026^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL DECIDES STATES, REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS MAY USE ‘ALL NECESSARY

MEANS’ TO FIGHT PIRACY OFF SOMALIA COAST FOR 12-MONTH PERIOD

Resolution 1846 (2008) Adopted Unanimously;

SECRETARY-GENERAL SPEAKS WITH INDIA’S PRIME MINISTER ON MUMBAI ATTACKS;

COMMENDS COURAGE, RESILIENCE SHOWN BY GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE

 

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