United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Field Support Susana Malcorra today outlined key developments and challenges facing the Department of Field Support ? including the implementation of a standardized global field support strategy and continued work on electoral processes in several nations. In the past few weeks, said Ms. Malcorra, the main challenges facing the Department […]
The Thirteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child today elected eight members to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. In a single round of secret balloting, the Meeting elected the following: Agnes Akosua Aidoo (Ghana); Aseil Al-Shehail (Saudi Arabia); Jorge Cardona Llorens (Spain); Bernard Gastaud […]
Secretary-General Calls on Security Council to Act Decisively To Return United Nations to What It Was in His Youth — ‘A Beacon of Hope’ Pointing out that in his youth during the Korean War, the United Nations had been a “beacon of hope”, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged members of the Security Council to act […]
In Addition to Passing 40 Drafts Recommended By Second Committee, Acts on Two Generated Directly by Plenary The General Assembly today adopted landmark draft resolutions setting forth strategies to protect coral reefs and mitigate the ill effects of chemical munitions dumped at sea, while declaring international years and decades for the promotion of sustainable energy, […]
The international community must apply innovative thinking to reduce tensions generated by critical election processes in West Africa, Said Djinnit, the Secretary-General?s Special Representative for the United Nations Office in the subregion told the Security Council today. Reporting on largely positive developments in the subregion in a briefing to Council members, he said: ?UNOWA […]
The Security Council today renewed for 12 months its arms embargo on Liberia and its travel ban on persons deemed threatening to the country?s peace process. Unanimously adopting resolution 1961 (2010), the Council also urged the Government of Liberia to implement the recommendations of the 2009 review team on the Kimberley Process, which certifies the exploitation […]
The Preparatory Committee for the upcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries held an organizational session today to assess preparations thus far for the event and to encourage delegates to give their input on the structure and themes of the Conference?s eventual outcome document. As mandated by General Assembly resolution 63/227, […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Susan Rice (United States): The members of the Security Council received a briefing from Ambassador Gennady Tarasov, the Secretary-General’s High-Level Coordinator, on the thirtieth report of the Secretary-General, in accordance with paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999). The members of […]
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its twelfth session from 15 to 16 December. The session, which was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, was presided over by the Chairman, David M. Walker, with all the members of IAAC, namely, Vadim V. Dubinkin, Vice-Chairman Vijayendra N. Kaul, John […]
On 17 December 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the entry specified below from its Consolidated List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) therefore no longer apply to the following individual: Removed from […]
