Néstor Osorio, Permanent Representative of Colombia, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, said today that the 15-nation body would tackle a ?loaded? agenda this month, while also keeping a wary eye on the ripple effects of the popular protests sweeping North African and the Middle East. Briefing the press at Headquarters […]
Persistence Will Shape Contours of New World ? for Better or for Worse ? Disarmament Chief Says, Urging Endurance of Solemn Legacy, Creation of New Future Despite an eleven-year stalemate in the Disarmament Commission over ways to achieve nuclear disarmament and wide scepticism that confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms would also remain […]
Envoy, Briefing on Events since 24 March, Including Second Mission, Says World Community Must Provide Support for Full Implementation of Resolutions 1970, 1973 While it was still very difficult to know how long it will take for conflict in Libya to be resolved, the responsibility for finding a solution lay with the Libyan people themselves, […]
Says Conference Outcome Will Determine Development Priorities ?for Years to Come?; Committee Concludes 8 April; Conference to be Held 9 to 13 May in Istanbul, Turkey The Secretary-General of the upcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries called on Member States to intensify their efforts to forge a programme of action that would have concrete […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents, ?Empowering Women to Change the World?, in Philadelphia, 4 April: It is a great pleasure to be here, to be invited to talk about one of my top priorities, one of the United Nations top priorities. Let me start by expressing […]
The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today, 4 April, on the situation in Côte d?Ivoire: I am very concerned about developments in Côte d?Ivoire. The security situation has deteriorated dramatically over the past days with fighting having escalated between forces loyal to President [Alassane] Ouattara and those forces remaining loyal to […]
Speaker Warns Least Developed Countries ?So Far from Handling Steering Wheels of International Machinery? but First to Get Run Over by It With the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries a little more than a month away, the General Assembly convened today an interactive civil society hearing to explore ways grass-roots […]
The United Nations expert body monitoring worldwide implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights concluded its 101st session at Headquarters in New York today, having taken up the compliance reports of Mongolia, Serbia, Slovakia and Togo. The Human Rights Committee, composed of 18 independent experts serving four-year terms, also heard progress reports from its […]
Participants Express Alarm over Violations Of Palestinian Rights, Call for Coordinated Response by Civil Society MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 31 March ? Noting the similarities between Latin America?s politically repressive and violent past and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, representatives of non-governmental organizations attending a United Nations Meeting in the Uruguayan capital today called on Latin American and […]
The following press statement was issued today by Security Council President Néstor Osorio ( Colombia): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the violent attack against the United Nations operations centre in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, on 1 April 2011, which resulted in the death and injury of United […]
