Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message, as delivered byMaher Nasser, Acting Head, Department of Public Information, to the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, in Geneva, 12 June: I am pleased to send greetings to all the participants in this international media seminar on peace in the Middle East. I thank […]
Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro?s remarks at the New York launch of the ?Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future?, 11 June, in New York: I am delighted to be with you tonight for the New York launch of the ?Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future?. And I […]
The annual report of the Secretary-General that provides an overview of the grave violations committed against children in conflict zones this year presented a ?mixed picture?, correspondents were told at Headquarters today. ?While new crises had erupted with a heavy toll on children in such countries as Syria and Libya, violations against girls and […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today announced the appointment of Major General Young-Bum Choi of the Republic of Korea as Chief Military Observer and Head of Mission of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP). Major General Choi succeeds Major General Raul Gloodtdofsky Fernandez of Uruguay, who will complete his assignment […]
In acknowledgement of the United Nations Public Service Day, 44 public organizations from 29 countries will receive international recognition for excellence in public service on 25 June. The United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA), which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2012, will be held in the General Assembly Hall. Commemorated on 23 June, the […]
Some Favour ?No Strings? Approach to Reduction; Others Caution Against Modifying Caseload; Commemoration of Treaty?s 30 Years Continues The twenty-second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea concluded its annual session today with the approval of a 3 per cent reduction in the proposed budget of the International Tribunal for […]
Assembly Reviews Progress since 2011 High-Level Political Declaration; President: Wave of Accelerating Progress, but Critical Challenges Remain While efforts to halt new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths had steadily intensified in the last year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed Governments in the General Assembly today to enhance prevention measures, provide greater access to treatments […]
The Special Committee on Decolonization this morning, resuming its session, approved by consensus requests for hearings from several Non-Self-Governing Territories in the coming days, as well as three draft resolutions on the transmission and dissemination of information on decolonization. It approved those requests from petitioners from the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)*, Western Sahara and Guam, […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Jeffrey D. Feltman ofthe United States as Under-Secretary-Generalfor Political Affairs. Mr. Feltman will replace B. Lynn Pascoe, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated service to the United Nations and for his able leadership of the Department of Political Affairs during a challenging period. Mr. Feltman, who recently served […]
Meeting Commemorates Treaty?s Thirtieth Anniversary, on World Oceans Day The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea offered a unique, flexible framework for adapting to the Earth?s evolving political and environmental challenges, said experts today as the Meeting of States Parties marked World Oceans Day ? commemorated annually on 8 June ? […]
