United Nations Meetings Coverage &Press Releases

Meetings Coverage

• 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
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, to Serve Two More Years, by General Assembly Decision (24 May 2012)
  Acting on the recommendation of the Secretary-General, the General Assembly this afternoon extended for two years the appointment of Navi Pillay as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  GA/11244

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Press Releases

• Deputy Secretary-General Encourages Partnership between Private, Public Sector to Improve Quality of Education, Enable Youth to Make Transition to Workplace (25 May 2012)
  Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s opening remarks at the Panel Discussion on Public-Private Partnerships in Education: An Evidence-Based Approach, in New York, 25 May:
  DSG/SM/618
• 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
• 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

• 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).
  
• 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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