United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a Headquarters press conference today at the conclusion of the one-day International Donors? Conference for Haiti aimed at securing financial resources for the earthquake-stricken country?s recovery that the friends of Haiti had acted far beyond expectations. (For details of the Conference, see Press Release GA/10932.) Declaring that the plight […]
With senior political figures gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York today for an international conference on rebuilding earthquake-shattered Haiti, the Japanese Government announced that it would provide an additional $30 million to the effort and dispatch a team of disaster-prevention experts to the country, according to Kazuo Kodama, Press Secretary in Japan?s Foreign Ministry. […]
The European Union would pledge some $1.6 billion for Haiti?s reconstruction at today?s ?International Donors? Conference towards a New Future for Haiti? at United Nations Headquarters, top officials of the Union told correspondents today. Catherine Ashton, the Union?s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said that after the ?terrible tragedy? in Haiti that […]
Secretary-General Urges ?Sweeping? Nation-building Exercise As Prime Minister Presents Blueprint to Guide National Reconstruction, Recovery The International Donors? Conference ?Towards a New Future for Haiti? raised almost $9.9 billion today in immediate and long-term assistance for the earthquake-devastated nation?s reconstruction, with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging ?full and generous support? for the Haitian […]
Taking Action on Fifth Committee Reports, Delegates Also Approve Drafts on Judicial Appointments, Emergency Preparedness Saying it was aware of “significant flaws” in the United Nations Secretariat’s internal monitoring, inspection and accountability mechanisms, the General Assembly stressed, in a resolution it adopted today, the importance of promoting a culture of accountability, results-based management, enterprise […]
Regional Groups Seek Security Guarantees against Nuclear Weapons Use; United States Says President Committed to Concrete Nuclear Disarmament Steps Pointing to the ?fresh and affirmative spirit of multilateralism? emerging in discussions on global disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, called on the Disarmament Commission this morning as it opened its […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sirte, Libya, on Friday, 25 March 2010, to participate in the Summit meeting there of the League of Arab States. He was greeted at the airport by the country’s leader, Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi, who welcomed his attendance at the Summit, which Colonel Qadhafi chaired. The Secretary-General then went […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tel Aviv in the early hours of 20 March from Moscow, with a stopover in Vienna, and then drove to Jerusalem. During the stopover in Vienna, the Secretary-General met Austrian Foreign Ministry officials to discuss a forthcoming official visit to Austria. After a working breakfast with United Nations […]
The United Nations Department of Public Information and the Anne Frank Center USA are launching a Twitter campaign in memory of Anne Frank, the young German-Jewish girl who perished in the Holocaust 65 years ago, with the aim of encouraging young people to learn from her experience hiding from the Nazis in the final months […]
Ahead of Wednesday?s international donors? conference at United Nations Headquarters, two senior officials closely linked with leading international recovery efforts for the country said today that they counted on the generosity of donors to mark a turning point in the Haitian people?s dream that one day their homeland would no longer need international assistance. At […]
