INHUMANE IMPACT OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS REQUIRES ‘URGENT ACTION’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON EVE OF VIENNA MEETING

 

Following is the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the occasion of the Vienna Conference on Cluster Munitions, 5-7 December:

‘THE ROAD TO A MINE-FREE WORLD IS LONG, BUT AN END IS IN SIGHT,’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON 10^th ANNIVERSARY OF MINE-BAN CONVENTION

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES BUSINESS LEADERS TO BRING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, NEW TECHNOLOGIES

TO BEAR ON CLIMATE CHANGE, IN MESSAGE TO NEW YORK AWARD DINNER

 

universal declaration should be integral part of everyone’s life,

 

Secretary-General says in message to mark human rights day

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on Human Rights Day, to be observed on 10 December:

Secretary-General, in message to inaugural asia-pacific water summit, warns

that scarcity threatens socio-economic gains, could fuel conflicts

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the first Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Beppu, Japan, today, 3 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN UNION BORDER DEMARCATION EFFORTS,

IN MESSAGE TO SEMINAR ON IMPLEMENTATION OF REGIONAL PROGRAMME

COOPERATION IS ESSENTIAL IN DETERMINING EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL

COURT, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STATES PARTIES TO ROME STATUTE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS AT WORLD AIDS DAY OBSERVANCE, CALLS FOR RENEWED

LEADERSHIP IN ERADICATING STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH HIV

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the observance of World AIDS Day, in New York on 30 November:

ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS POVERTY,

 

SOCIAL EXCLUSION, DISCRIMINATION ALLOW CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY TO FESTER

 

AT THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COLOMBIA, SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES COMMENDABLE

PROGRESS TOWARDS RE-ESTABLISHING COUNTRYWIDE PEACE AND SECURITY