SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ROCKET FIRE BY PALESTINIAN MILITANTS TARGETING ISRAEL,

SAYS PUNITIVE MEASURES BY ISRAEL AGAINST GAZA UNACCEPTABLE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ‘CONNECT AFRICA’ SUMMIT NARROWING ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE’

BETWEEN RICH, POOR NATIONS CENTRAL TO DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fourth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION ON HUMANKIND, ENVIRONMENT;

APPROVES DRAFT TEXT IN SUPPORT OF STRENGTHENED FUNDING FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Sixty-second General Assembly

First Committee

19^th & 20^th Meetings (PM)

 ‘LOOPHOLES’ IN SMALL ARMS NORMS MUST BE CLOSED, AS ILLICIT WEAPONS WEAKEN STATE

STABILITY, DESTROY ECONOMIC FABRIC, KILL HUNDREDS DAILY, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

28^th & 29^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Darfur Remains region where gross human rights violations are perpetrated

 

by all parties, rapporteur tells third committee

 

Security Council

5772^nd Meeting* (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS CÔTE D’IVOIRE SANCTIONS UNTIL 31 OCTOBER 2008,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1782 (2007)

 

Measures Include Arms, Rough Diamond Ban;

TOURISM CAN FOSTER SPIRITUAL, CULTURAL RESPECT IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MARKED

BY RISING INTOLERANCE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CORDOBA CONFERENCE

 

AS DARFUR PEACE TALKS BEGIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS PARTIES

FOR MAKING ‘CHOICE OF DIALOGUE OVER WAR’

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

12^th Meeting (AM)

Budget committee takes up issue of programme planning, including report

of committee for programme and coordination

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

11^th Meeting (AM)