United Nations Meetings Coverage &Press Releases

Meetings Coverage

• Applauding Peacebuilding Commission’s Early Successes, Speakers in Assembly Stress Fine-Tuning Still Needed to Enhance Results on Ground in Post-Conflict Countries (20 November 2009)
  While early and concrete successes underlined the importance of the young Peacebuilding Commission and Peacebuilding Fund ‑‑ established at the General Assembly’s 2005 World Summit to help countries emerging from conflict hold on to fragile reconstruction gains ‑‑ broader support and resources were needed, notably from the private sector, to enable those bodies to realize their potential, Assembly delegates said today as they considered progress achieved thus far.
  GA/10893
• Acting on 20th Anniversary of Child Rights Convention, Third Committee Approves Annual Resolution on Rights of the Child by Consensus (20 November 2009)
  Profoundly concerned that the situation of children in many parts of the world remained critical, the Third Committee approved a draft resolution that explicitly recognized the right of young people to be heard in all matters affecting them today, on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  GA/SHC/3968
• General Assembly Will Adopt Declaration, Strategy to Counter World Drug Problem under Terms of Draft Resolution Approved by Third Committee (19 November 2009)
  Raising grave concerns over the dangers posed to political and socio-economic stability by the illegal drug trade, the Third Committee today approved, by consensus, a draft resolution paving the way for the General Assembly to adopt a declaration and plan of action on international cooperation towards a strategy to counter the world drug problem, as adopted at the high-level segment of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March.
  GA/SHC/3967

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Press Releases

• Activities of Secretary-General in Italy, 15-17 November 2009 (20 November 2009)
  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rome on Sunday afternoon, 15 November, to attend the World Food Security Summit.
  SG/T/2707
• Secretary-General Welcomes European Union’s Appointment of Its First President, High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy (20 November 2009)
  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
  SG/SM/12621
• More Ambitious Agreement in Copenhagen Can More Quickly Be Codified in Treaty, Says Secretary-General to General Assembly Informal Meeting (20 November 2009)
  Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the Informal Meeting of the Plenary on Climate Change, in New York, on 19 November:
  SG/SM/12617-GA/10892-ENV/DEV/1092

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Press Conferences

• Press Conference by General Assembly President on Informal Climate Change Meeting (19 November 2009)
  The upcoming conference in Copenhagen on climate change should not only be attended by the most interested and concerned Heads of State, but there should also be good results, the President of the General Assembly said this evening at a Headquarters press conference after an informal Assembly meeting on the matter.
  
• Press Conference by Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (19 November 2009)
  With 17 days left before the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said today that there was no doubt in his mind that the event would be a success.
  
• Press Conference on State of the World Population Report 2009 (18 November 2009)
  The United Nations Population Fund launched today at Headquarters its annual report on global population trends, which this year focuses on ways to curb the long-term harmful consequences of the planet’s changing climate by reaching out and empowering poor women, some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
  

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