ROUND TABLE ON SYSTEMIC ISSUES HEARS CALL FOR GREATER

 

DEVELOPING-WORLD ‘VOICE’ IN BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Security Council

6027^th Meeting (AM)

LONG-AWAITED INCLUSIVE POLITICAL DIALOGUE SET TO BEGIN IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC,

AIMED AT PAVING WAY FOR RECONCILIATION, STABILIZATION, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Special Representative Says Two-Week Dialogue, To Be Held in Bangui,

SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN IMPLEMENTING

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, AS signatories MEET IN the hague

 

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:

Sixty-third General Assembly

Plenary

61^st Meeting (AM)

‘URGENT CHALLENGE’ FOR ASIA -– TO FOSTER ECONOMIC GROWTH, WHILE MINIMIZING IMPACT

ON CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO HONG KONG MEETING

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Clinton Global Initiative in Hong Kong, 2 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES TEAMWORK BETWEEN QATAR OLYMPIC COMMITTEE, GLOBAL

SPORT FUND ON INITIATIVE TO EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SPORT

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an event for the Global Sport Fund for Youth, in Doha, 29 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS CRUCIAL WORK DONE TO STRENGTHEN BARRIERS AGAINST

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, BIOTERRORISM, IN MESSAGE TO GENEVA MEETING