Financial indicators for 2011 were encouraging, with 29 Member States having paid in full all assessments due, said Angela Kane, Under-Secretary-General for Management, at a headquarters press conference today. Briefing correspondents on the United Nations financial situation and joined by Assistant Secretary-General and United Nations Controller Jun Yamazaki, Ms. Kane said that unpaid assessed contributions totalled […]
Officials of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) released a report at Headquarters today which identifies promising ways in which the world can mitigate and adapt to climate change while following more sustainable, resilient patterns of urban development. In presenting the biennial report, Global Report on Human Settlements 2011: Cities and Climate Change, […]
At a press conference to launch a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report entitled Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth, Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner said that, despite the “dramatic numbers” contained in the report, the picture painted for the future need not be bleak. “When we talk about the […]
Secretariat officials today laid out their financing proposals for the 2011/12 period for four peacekeeping operations ? the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and support for African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) ? to the Fifth […]
Secretary General Urges Launch of 10-Year Framework on Issue ‘Without Delay’; Commission Also Hears Three Keynote Speakers, Holds Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Twenty years after participants to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro first recognized that unsustainable consumption and production patterns formed the biggest threat to the Earth’s capacity to satisfy human needs, that […]
Presidential Statement Expresses Concern at Discord, Unilateral Mandate Extensions Noting that the transitional period in Somalia would end in August, the Security Council today urged the East African nation?s Transitional Federal Institutions to reach agreement as soon as possible on the holding of elections for the President and the Speaker of Parliament. In a […]
Former Aid Recipient Says Path to Development Daunting; Donor Says Aid Should Be Fair, Not Tied to Political or Strategic Interests (Received from a UN Information Officer.) ISTANBUL, 11 May ? Broad agreement emerged today during the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries concerning the responsibility of the world?s poorest countries for their […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France): The members of the Security Council are deeply concerned about the situation in Abyei, and condemn any action by either party to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that runs counter to President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir and First Vice President Salva […]
On 10 May 2011, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the entry specified 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 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the opening of the high-level segment of the nineteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19), in New York, 11 May: I am pleased to welcome you to the high-level segment of the nineteenth session […]
