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SG/T/2673

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Brussels, Belgium from Valletta, Malta, in the early evening of Wednesday, 22 April. Upon arrival in Brussels on Wednesday evening, he had a working dinner with Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy at his official residence.

PI/1894
Petri Kristian Cozma, a student at the Helsinki School of Economics, was elected as the first General Assembly President of the Global Model United Nations Conference. Mr. Cozma and eight other university students will attend a workshop, organized by the Department of Public Information, at United Nations Headquarters from 17 to 19 June, to be trained in their roles as General Assembly officials for the Conference.
L/3143-ORG/1516
On Monday, 22 June, the 15 judges who are to serve on the new United Nations Dispute Tribunal and Appeals Tribunal all participated in a swearing-in ceremony in the presence of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The tribunals are part of a comprehensive reform of the Organization’s internal justice system, dealing with work-related disputes and disciplinary matters, due to begin on 1 July 2009.
SC/9710
On 17 July 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.