Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s press conference held in New York today, 14 January: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to see you at the beginning of this New Year, 2011. I have exchanged New Year?s greetings with some of you in your offices, but more formally I?d […]
Better Methods Needed to Ensure ?Smooth Transition? On Ground, Address Needs of Small Islands, Says Maldives Representative Amid widespread concern that more of the world?s poorest nations had not graduated to the next stage of socio-economic development in the last 10 years, officials from developing countries pressed today for the fulfilment of development assistance […]
Istanbul Will Determine Development Paradigm for Years, He Says of Poor Nations? Need to ?Graduate? from ?Least Developed? Status The upcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which would determine the development paradigm for years to come, must come up with concrete ways to achieve sustainable economic prosperity in those 48 nations […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is deeply concerned that regular and irregular forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo have begun to attack and burn United Nations vehicles. Beginning this morning, there have been a total of six incidents involving such attacks in Abidjan, where […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Chao Liu of China as the Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Major General Liu succeeds Rear Admiral Mario Sánchez Debernardi of Peru, who completed his assignment on 31 December 2010. The Secretary-General is grateful for Rear […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ivan Barbalić ( Bosnia and Herzegovina): The members of the Security Council welcomed the briefing by Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, on the work of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia over the past […]
Climate change, the international financial system and South-South cooperation would be among the most important issues to be addressed by the ?Group of 77? developing countries and China in 2011, Jorge Argüello ( Argentina), its incoming Chairman, said at a Headquarters press conference today. With the budgets for 2012 and 2013 also due to be […]
While the poorest among the world?s most vulnerable countries had made solid development gains over the past decade, donors and the wider international community must continue to provide assistance and help foster an environment in which such advances could be sustained and built upon, correspondents heard today. Cheick Sidi Diarra, the Special Adviser on Africa […]
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the country told correspondents at Headquarters today that most humanitarian targets had been achieved while reconstruction should be accelerated, though that would necessarily be a long-term process. ?Speeding up the reconstruction process is absolutely the priority for 2011,? […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General would like to express his solidarity with the people of Haiti and all those who suffered tragic losses a year ago. On 12 January 2010, Haiti suffered a disaster of unparalleled magnitude. The earthquake that day killed over 200,000 […]
