Meetings Coverage
- Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Considers Reinstatements, Suspensions, Withdrawals, Change of Name Requests, Reports of Accredited NGOs (25 May 2012)
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended four entities for consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and postponed its consideration of nine applications. It also took note of 137 quadrennial reports submitted by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in consultative status with the Council, while deferring consideration of 14.
ECOSOC/6516-NGO/756
- Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Recommends 20 Applicants for Status, Defers 35, Including for Discrepancy between Aims and Activities (24 May 2012)
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 19 entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and 1 for roster status, but postponed consideration of 35 other applications as it continued consideration of applications deferred from previous sessions during its resumed 2012 session.
ECOSOC/6515-NGO/755
- In Budget Committee, Speakers Welcome Improved UN Financial Picture, but Express Concern over Peacekeeping Cash Shortages, Delayed Payments to Troop Contributors (24 May 2012)
While lauding the improved financial situation of the United Nations at year-end 2011 and further progress since then, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon expressed concern over the continued cash shortages in peacekeeping operations and the subsequent lag in payments to countries providing troops and police to such operations.
GA/AB/4032
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Press Releases
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United Nations International School to Hold Graduation Ceremony in General Assembly Hall 31 May (25 May 2012)
The graduation ceremony for the Class of 2012 of the United Nations International School (UNIS) will take place at 4 pm on Thursday, 31 May 2012, in the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Susan Rice, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will be the guest speaker.
Note No. 6350
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Lauding Croatia’s 20 Years of UN Membership, Secretary-General Says Where Once It Hosted Five Peacekeeping Operations, It Now Built Proud Record of Public Service (25 May 2012)
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the ceremony celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Croatia’s membership in the United Nations, in Zagreb, 25 May:
SG/SM/14311
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Special Committee on Decolinization to Convene Regional Seminar on Eradicating Colonialism, in Quito, Ecuador, 30 May-1 June (25 May 2012)
The Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as the Special Committee of 24, will hold its regional Pacific seminar on decolonization in Quito, Ecuador, from 30 May to 1 June.
GA/COL/3232
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Press Conferences
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Press Conference on Launch of Online South-South Cooperation Exchange Mechanism (23 May 2012)
The concept of South-South cooperation was alive and well and moving into a more dynamic phase as Member States debated their ideas regarding which direction to take the concept going forward, the President of the United Nations High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation, John Ashe, said today at a Headquarters press conference in the lead-up to the launch of a South-South cooperation exchange mechanism by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Press Conference by Special Representative for Democratic Republic of the Congo (22 May 2012)
The security situation in North and South Kivu remained generally volatile and with several armed groups operating in the region, continued fighting had resulted in significant displacement of civilians, both within Congo and across the border into Rwanda and Uganda, Roger Meece, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo said.
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