United Nations Meetings Coverage &Press Releases

Meetings Coverage

• On Recommendation of First Committee, General Assembly Adopts 54 Texts, Sets Aside Four Weeks in 2012 to Hammer Out Legally Binding Arms Trade Treaty (2 December 2009)
  The General Assembly, acting on the recommendation of its First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), today adopted 54 texts, including one new resolution adopted by consensus in the nuclear weapons sphere -– naming 29 August as the international day against nuclear tests.
  GA/10898
• United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees Holds Pledging Conference Amid Serious Concerns over Funding Shortfalls Threatening to Cripple Field Operations (2 December 2009)
  Describing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a lifeline for millions of Palestinians affected by recurring regional violence, and expressing concern over its current funding shortfall, 19 donors this morning pledged roughly $91.4 million to UNRWA for 2010, with several more indicating their contributions would be forthcoming.
  GA/10897-PAL/2127
• Delegates at South-South Conference Assert Readiness of Emerging Economies to Take Lead in Designing, Implementing Long-Term Development Plans (2 December 2009)
  Officials from dynamic emerging economies asserted today that their Governments were ready to improve socio-economic conditions at home and help raise development prospects across the global South, proof that many developing countries were now capable of taking the lead in designing and implementing their own long-term development plans.
  DEV/2780

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Press Releases

• Secretary-General Appoints Ameerah Haq of Bangladesh Special Representative for Timor-Leste (2 December 2009)
  The Secretary-General has appointed Ameerah Haq of Bangladesh as his Special Representative for Timor-Leste and Head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). Ms. Haq succeeds Atul Khare of India. The Secretary-General is grateful to Mr. Khare for his dedicated service and excellent leadership of UNMIT over the past three years.
  SG/A/1206
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Address Twelfth Annual United Nations Student Conference on Human Rights, 4 December (2 December 2009)
  On Friday, 4 December, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, will address high school students from Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and North America who will participate in a videoconference at United Nations Headquarters.
  Note No. 6235
• Secretary-General, at New York Launch, Praises Report of Pacific AIDS Commission; Says Recommendations Can Prevent Infection, Improve Lives of People at Risk (2 December 2009)
  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks at the launch of the Report of the Commission on AIDS in the Pacific in New York, 2 December:
  SG/SM/12652-AIDS/155

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Press Conferences

• Press Conference on Pacific Aids Commission Report (2 December 2009)
  Gender violence and gender inequality were the principal drivers behind the spread of AIDS throughout the Pacific region, according to a report launched today at United Nations Headquarters by the independent Commission on AIDS in the Pacific.
  
• Press Conference on World Economic Situation and Prospects 2010 (2 December 2009)
  The world economy will rebound and grow by 2.4 per cent next year, officials from the United Nations said today in a report launched at Headquarters, while warning that the recovery was brittle and depended on continued stimulus measures.
  
• Press Conference on 30th Anniversary of Women’s Anti-Discrimination Convention (2 December 2009)
  Poised to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary on 18 December, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was today lauded by women’s rights advocates for enabling human rights defenders over the last thirty years to successfully demand change in laws that discriminated against women.
  

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