Staff Union President Frustrated by Failure To Bring Perpetrators to Book as Deadly Annual Trend Continues The trend of deadly attacks against United Nations personnel continued in 2009, with at least 28 civilian staff members losing their lives due to acts of violence, according to the United Nations Staff Union Committee for the Security and […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Bo Schack of Denmark to serve as his Deputy Special Representative in the Central African Republic. Mr. Schack will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative. Joining the newly established United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) at a […]
It was particularly important this month for the Security Council to strengthen coordination with regional organizations, as it considered the next steps in situations such as Somalia, Ambassador Zhang Yesui of China, whose country holds the body?s presidency for January, told correspondents at Headquarters today. As he outlined the agenda for the coming weeks, […]
Also Adopts Texts on 2012 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, Human Rights in Myanmar, Corruption Convention, Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy The General Assembly concluded the main part of its substantive session early this morning with the adoption a $5.16 billion budget for the United Nations 2010‑2011 biennium, and importantly, a resolution that maintains the current scale by […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Copenhagen from New York in the early morning of Tuesday, 15 December, for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. Shortly after his arrival, the Secretary-General headed to the Conference site, the Bella Centre, where he started the day with a briefing on the status […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Informal High-Level Event convened by the Prime Minister of Denmark: It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome you to this very important summit level Conference on Climate Change. Thank you for taking time, despite your very busy State affairs. This means you are […]
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010 website today, 18 December: Friends, in June 2010, the United Nations will host the third Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York. Many chief executive officers will be there. So will Government officials and civil society. Our aim is […]
In Briefing, Special Representative Cites Challenges Of Protecting Civilians while Supporting ?Indisciplined? Government Forces Progress in the coming year should allow the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) to hone its task of helping ensure the future stability of the vast central African country, Alan Doss, Special Representative of […]
The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia today decided to remove the name of the following individual from the list of individuals subject to the travel restrictions imposed by paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1521 (2003) (the travel ban list) and the list of individuals and entities subject to […]
