United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday, 19 July, to attend a meeting of the principal members of the Middle East Quartet.

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Background Release

UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE MONITORING ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION

AGAINST WOMEN TO CELEBRATE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

 

Will Consider Reports of 15 States

Parties at Thirty-Ninth Session, 23 July - 10 August

United Nations suspends Côte d’Ivoire peacekeeping contingent; full investigation

of sexual exploitation allegations under way

 

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONSIDERS REVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMME

OF ACTION FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FOR DECADE 2001–2010

(Reissued as received.)

STATEMENT BY MIDDLE EAST QUARTET

 

The following statement was issued today by the Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union):

Secretary-General welcomes constructive outcome of Tripoli meeting on Darfur,

 

Says determined to expeditiously implement political road map

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

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONSIDERS IMPLEMENTATION, FOLLOW-UP TO MAJOR

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCES, SUMMITS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS

Discusses Follow-Up to the International Conference on Financing for Development

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

5719^th Meeting (AM)

Chief of Hariri assassination investigation briefs Security Council,

says number of individuals identified who may have been involved

Tells Council Continued Probe of Those Persons Top Priority in Coming Months;

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Geneva on Sunday, 1 July, and visited the monument to Sergio Vieira de Mello and to the 21 other United Nations staff who were killed in Baghdad on 19 August 2003.