Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as delivered, to the Partners Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May: Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan, let me begin by thanking you for your support and for hosting us today. Five years ago, we launched the Alliance of Civilizations with […]
The following statement was issued on 30 May by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General congratulates the people of Lesotho for conducting peaceful elections for the National Assembly on 26 May. He welcomes the professional work of the Independent Electoral Commission, as well as the international and local electoral observer missions. The […]
Cohesive global action was needed to support the world?s refugees and internally displaced people, whose numbers were rising dramatically due to an emerging ?multiplication of factors?, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today, as he launched the agency?s 2012 report. ?This is not a book about statistics,? said António Guterres ? who […]
(Received from a UN Information Officer.) QUITO, ECUADOR, 30 May ? In a message to the Pacific Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged participants to promote genuine communication at all levels, formal and informal, in which interlocutors are genuinely […]
Speakers Outraged at Attacks on Palestinian Civilians, Insist On Implementation of Security Council Civilian Protection Resolutions (Received from a UN Information Officer.) PARIS, 31 May — The role of information technology in Palestinian social cohesion and state-building, strategies to bolster education and the need to hold Israel to account for human rights abuses in […]
Speakers Discuss Challenges, International, Grassroots Efforts (Received from a UN Information Officer.) PARIS, 30 May — The Israeli occupation’s harsh socio-economic impact on Palestinian youth and women and the subsequent challenges and home-grown and global efforts to improve their lot were examined this afternoon as the United Nations International Meeting on the Question of […]
‘Women and Youth Have Much to Contribute to Secure A Lasting Israeli-Palestinian Peace,’ says Ban Ki-moon (Received from a UN Information Officer.) PARIS, 30 May — Stressing the important role of Palestinian women and youth in achieving a durable peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a greater say for […]
Commission Chair Describes Framework?s Serious Operational Implications; Also Considers Sierra Leone Court, Peacekeeping Finance, Staff Pension Committee Taking up a number of issues dealing with the financing of peacekeeping operations, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today also heard a request on behalf of United Nations field-based organizations to reconsider the four-week rest and […]
NEW YORK, 30 May, Office for Disarmament Affairs ? In May, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), provided a set of small arms destruction equipment to Belize and trained national officers on the use of the equipment. These […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Pacific Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: Current Realities and Prospects, as delivered by Sergei Cherniavsky, Chief, Disarmament and Peace Affairs Branch, Department of General Assembly Affairs, in Quito, Ecuador, 30 May: I am pleased to greet […]
