Secretary-General APPLAUDS NOMINATION OF NEW PRIME MINISTER IN SOMALIA

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

Secretary-General, in message to world tourism organization assembly,

hails links with issues at top of United Nations agenda

 

CLIMATE CHANGE, BUDGET, CAPITAL MASTER PLAN, MIDDLE EAST AMONG ISSUES

AS SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS INFORMAL MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s briefing to an informal meeting of the General Assembly in New York, 21 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL CREATION OF WORKING GROUP ON CIVILIAN

PROTECTION ‘INEVITABLE NEXT STEP’ TO GIVE PRACTICAL MEANING TO COMMITMENT

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN WORLD DAY MESSAGE, CALLS FOR RENEWED LEADERSHIP AGAINST AIDS;

 

SAYS ‘WITHOUT IT, WE WILL NEVER GET AHEAD OF THE EPIDEMIC’

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World AIDS Day, observed 1 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ANNUAL PARLIAMENTARY HEARING THAT UNITED NATIONS VIEWS

INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION AS ESSENTIAL PARTNER IN ENFORCING RULE OF LAW

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SHOULD BE ACCORDED ‘DEADLY

 

SERIOUSNESS’, NOT JUST ON INTERNATIONAL DAY, 25 NOVEMBER, BUT EVERY DAY

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ACCESS TO SANITATION -- ONE OF MOST OVERLOOKED HUMAN NEEDS

 

-– IS CORE ISSUE OF HUMAN DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, ON LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS ON NEW CHARTER;

 

SAYS ‘HISTORIC STEP’ TOWARDS CLOSER INTEGRATION, COOPERATION

 

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

PALESTINE RELIEF AGENCY PROVIDES ‘STEADYING INFLUENCE’ IN REGION BURDENED

BY CONFLICT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO AMMAN MEETING