Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

PM Meeting

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the late afternoon on Sunday, 12 November, in Istanbul, Turkey, after a brief stopover in Zurich, Switzerland. Turkey would be the first stop in a four-nation visit that would also take him to Kenya, Ethiopia and Switzerland.

In message for international day, Secretary-General calls for creation

 

of environment ‘where violence against women is not tolerated’

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGy CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL, ESPECIALLY PERSONS

WITH DISABILITIES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN OBSERVANCE OF DISABLED PERSONS DAY

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day of Disabled Persons, observed on 3 December:

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

29^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

45^th Meeting (PM)

Joint UN-IPU Parliamentary Hearing

on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

PM Meeting

panellists highlight staffing, funding weaknesses as they discuss

challenges, expectations facing peacebuilding commission

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE, STRESSES

ACADEMIA’S ROLE IN GUIDING MORE EFFECTIVE POLICIES, PRACTICES

Country ownership of peacebuilding through parliaments, other institutions crucial

to success, says Secretary-General in message to new york parliamentary hearing

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES LEADERSHIP OF EUROPEAN UNION IN AFRICA ANTI-POVERTY

 

EFFORTS, IN VIDEO MESSAGE TO BRUSSELS ‘DEVELOPMENT DAYS’ MEETING

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message for the European Development Days in Brussels, 13 to 17 November: