The resignation of Yvo de Boer as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would not substantially disturb ongoing negotiations leading up to the climate change conference in Mexico later this year, Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General?s Climate Change Support Team, told correspondents this morning. At the outset of the […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s opening remarks to a joint press conference with Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Meles Zenawi, 12 February: It is a great pleasure to have this very important video conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. Thank you very much […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: As Lebanon marks the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack that took the lives of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others, the Secretary-General stands with the people of Lebanon in commemorating the life and achievements of Mr. Hariri […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is encouraged by the news that a ceasefire agreement has been reached in the north of Yemen. He hopes that the ceasefire will hold and that it will provide an opportunity to fully resolve this conflict. The United […]
As Haitians observed a national day of mourning to mark one month since the massive earthquake levelled much of their capital city, Port-au-Prince, and left more than 200,000 dead, the scale of the disaster was becoming clear, and early recovery programmes were under way to help the traumatised Caribbean nation regain a sense of […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in a new report issued today, argued that attacks on education should be a trigger for Security Council intervention through its monitoring and reporting mechanism on children in armed conflict, on par with action now being taken to combat child soldiering. Speaking at a Headquarters […]
He Welcomes Resumed High-level Sudan-Chad Dialogue, Release of Mission Staff The challenges facing Darfur must be met within a national context at this critical time for Sudan, Dmitry Titov, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council today. ?The conflicts in Sudan, which have a primarily internal structure, cannot be solved in a piecemeal […]
Also Sets 18-19 March for Meeting with Bretton Woods Institutions, Fills Four Vacancies on Committee for United Nations Population Award Holding its second organizational meeting this year, the Economic and Social Council today adopted five decisions, outlining its agenda and work programme for its 2010 substantive session, set to be held from 28 June to […]
Nearly one month after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rattled Haiti and levelled most of its densely-packed capital, Port-au-Prince, the United Nations ‑‑ with much of the world body?s staff working out of tents and a few sleeping in their cars ‑‑ finally had a clear picture of the breadth of the devastation, and was racing […]
Despite an encouraging commitment to peacebuilding priorities on the part of the Guinea-Bissau authorities, there had been only slow progress in security-sector reform, economic development and combating drug trafficking, the Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission?s relevant country-specific configuration said today. ?It is a long path still, but we know what the priorities are and we […]
