SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN VIDEO MESSAGE, SAYS INDIGENOUS PERMANENT FORUM ASSUMES NEW ROLE

IN TRANSLATING DECLARATION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHTS INTO ‘LIVING’ TEXT

UNCTAD Secretary-General Underscores Importance of Directing Investment Flows

From Growing Emerging Economies to Poorest Countries

 

High-level Investment Forum Discusses Actions by Government, Private Sector

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS NEW COMMISSION ON EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

WITH AFRICA CAN FOCUS WORLD ATTENTION ON DEVELOPMENT COMMITMENTS in continent

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES INTENTION OF SUDAN’S NATIONAL

UNITY GOVERNMENT TO PROCEED WITH NATIONAL CENSUS

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, INTRODUCING POPE BENEDICT XVI TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

SAYS ‘IN SO MANY WAYS, OUR MISSION UNITES US WITH YOURS’

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

95^th Meeting (AM)

Secretary-General strongly condemns renewed violence in Burundi;

 

Urges parties to resume dialogue, conclude peace process

 

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

Background Release

Background Release

CLIMATE CHANGE, BIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LIVELIHOODS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

TO BE FOCUS OF United Nations FORUM, 21 April – 2 May

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS STAFF, POPE BENEDICT XVI SHARE

COMMON MISSION -– ‘TO BUILD PEACE IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to introduce His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the staff of the United Nations in New York, 18 April: