SECRETARY-GENERAL APPROVES $10 MILLION CONTRIBUTION IN AID TO NEPAL

FROM UNITED NATIONS PEACEBUILDING FUND

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, OPENING SYMPOSIUM ON VICTIMS OF TERRORISM, URGES GOVERNMENTS

TO DRAW UPON THEIR COURAGE, STRENGTH IN IMPLEMENTING COUNTER-MEASURES

Unprecedented Gathering Hears from Survivors of Attacks Perpetrated Worldwide

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT SYMPOSIUM, SAYS SCOURGE OF TERRORISM ATTACKS HUMANITY

ITSELF; VOICES OF VICTIMS ‘STRONGEST ARGUMENT WHY IT CAN NEVER BE JUSTIFIED’

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement at the Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism in New York, 9 September:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva from Turin in the morning of Sunday, 31 August.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOSTS INFORMAL TALKS ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 8–10 SEPTEMBER

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Turin on Thursday, 28 August, where the following morning he opened a two-day retreat with about 60 senior United Nations officials, Under-Secretaries-General and Assistant Secretaries-General coming from New York Headquarters as well as Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Zaragoza, Spain, from Geneva, Switzerland, in the middle of the day on Monday, 1 September.

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS ROUND TABLE ON ‘HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Education and LEARNING as a way of life’

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL DPI/NGO CONFERENCE CLOSES

 

Speakers Emphasize Continuing Relevance of Universal Declaration,

Importance of Speaking Out to Ensure Human Rights Implementation

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

119^th & 120^th Meetings (AM & PM)