Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York on 19 September: Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to have this opportunity, as we have just begun the General Assembly’s sixty-seventh session yesterday. Thank you for being here — and thank you for […]
In Remarks, Secretary-General Says ?People Want Results in Real Time, Not Years?; Asked to Do More than Ever Before, United Nations Must Rise to the Moment Faced with extraordinary challenges including terrorism, widespread geopolitical instability and the urgent need for sustainable development, the General Assembly ? through a host of new initiatives and an unflagging […]
Unanimously Adopts Resolution 2067 (2012), Noting Completion of Transition; Somalia Calls Resolution ?Landmark,? Adding Fight for Real Nation Just Beginning Welcoming significant political progress in Somalia that had led to the selection of a new President, the Security Council this morning called for the formation of an inclusive Government, the definition of post-transition priorities […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the opening of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly in New York today, 18 September: The opening of each year?s session of the General Assembly coincides with the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere. But to me there is also a feeling of spring. […]
Yuriy A. Sergeyev, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Sixth Committee (Legal and Administrative) on 4 September. (See Press Release GA/L/3431) Mr. Sergeyev has been Permanent Representative since May 2007. Prior to that appointment, he was Ambassador to France since 2003, during which time he was also Permanent Representative […]
Miguel Berger, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on 4 September. (See Press Release GA/AB/4035) Mr. Berger has been his country?s Deputy Permanent Representative since July 2010. Prior to that, he led the Parliament and Cabinet Division of the Foreign Office in Berlin […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message, delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the sixty-sixth session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in Vienna, 17 September: I am pleased to send greetings to the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency. It has been an eventful […]
Political Affairs Head, Jeffrey Feltman, Briefs; C ôte d?Ivoire, on behalf of West African States, Updates on Proposed Mali Stabilization Force The kinds of stress factors tearing at Mali?s social and political fabric reflected the deep-seated fragilities stretching across the broader Sahel region, and it was critical for the international community to commit to […]
Delegates Adopt 6 Draft Resolutions, 1 Oral Decision, Deferring Other Action Faced with conflicts in the Arab world and other global challenges, the General Assembly had ?stood strong, active and responsive? over the past year, making key advances in dispute settlement, United Nations reform, disaster prevention and sustainable development, Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser ( Qatar), […]
Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process Briefs The top United Nations official dealing with the Middle East peace process told the Security Council today that the financial and economic crises currently crippling the Palestinian Authority were a ?sobering manifestation? of the risk that the ongoing political stalemate between Israelis and Palestinians, as […]
