The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is concerned following the incidents that marked the first round of the presidential and legislative elections in Haiti on Sunday, 28 November 2010. The Secretary-General looks forward to a solution to the political crisis in the country and calls […]
Also Takes Up Third Report Concerning United Nations Adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today debated the Organization?s ongoing efforts to overhaul an outdated information and communications technology system and carry out an enterprise resource planning project called Umoja, so it could deliver its services around the […]
Conflict Deemed ?Great Unfinished Business of Twentieth Century?; Leaders On Both Sides Challenged to Show Statesmanship, Political Courage to Attain Peace Despite a mood of pessimism among Palestinians and Israelis alike, the coming year should be the one in which a just and lasting peace would finally be achieved in the Middle East, in line […]
Condemning the continuing illicit flow of weapons within and into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Security Council today renewed until 30 November 2011 the arms embargo and related sanctions on that country, and requested the Secretary-General to extend the mandate of the Group of Experts monitoring those measures. Unanimously adopting resolution 1952 (2010) […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is concerned following the incidents that marked the first round of the presidential and legislative elections in Haiti on Sunday, 28 November 2010. The Secretary-General looks forward to a solution to the political crisis in the country and calls […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General welcomes the holding of the second round of the presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire, despite some violent incidents in various areas of the country. He notes that, by exercising their right to vote for the second time in […]
The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant ( United Kingdom): In accordance with paragraph 5 of resolution 1916 (2010) on Somalia, the Security Council has conducted its second 120-day review of the effects of the measures set out in that paragraph, based on all available information, including […]
NEW YORK, 26 November (Division for Palestinian Rights) ? The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a special meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Conference Room 2 of the North Lawn Building at 10 a.m. on Monday, 29 November, […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November: Every year on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we reflect on the situation of the Palestinians and consider what more we can do for peace. Two timelines reach a […]
The international community must go beyond ?business as usual? and develop a new international development architecture because current economic regimes had not worked in favour of least developed countries in the wake of the global financial and economic crisis, United Nations officials stressed during a Headquarters press conference today. Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General and […]
