Meetings Coverage
- Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Chair of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Briefs Security Council on Priorities for 2012 (9 February 2012)
Outlining the priorities for the 2012 term as the Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade stressed today that his country would be a loyal steward of the regional organization’s concept of a “common, comprehensive and indivisible security” and work to enhance its cooperation with the United Nations.
SC/10540
- Commission for Social Development Considers Programme Intended to Make Social Policy Division’s Work ‘More Precise, Transparent, Measurable’ (9 February 2012)
In a brief meeting today, the Commission for Social Development considered a proposed programme of work for the Division for Social Policy and Development for the biennium 2014-2015, which was to be “more precise, transparent, and measurable” than in previous years.
SOC/4793
- NGO Committee Recommends 10 More Organizations for Special Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council (8 February 2012)
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to 10 applicants from a range of fields, including art education, the elderly and penal reform, and removed 20 applicants from its list of consideration, while approving name change requests from another dozen applicants.
ECOSOC/6500-NGO/749
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Press Releases
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Activities of Secretary-General in Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 1-3 February (8 February 2012)
On Wednesday, 1 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Israel from Amman, Jordan.
SG/T/2832
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Activities of Secretary-General in Jordan, 31 January – 1 February (8 February 2012)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Amman, Jordan, from Ethiopia on Tuesday morning, 31 January.
SG/T/2831
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Activities of Secretary-General in Ethiopia, 28-30 January (8 February 2012)
On Saturday evening, 28 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Addis Ababa from Zurich to attend the eighteenth ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union.
SG/T/2830
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Press Conferences
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Press Conference on 2011 Forest Heroes Awards (9 February 2012)
Everyday people — from a Japanese oyster fisherman cultivating his business by planting trees in an estuary devastated by the 2011 tsunami, to two Michigan teenagers campaigning to ensure Girl Scout cookies and other palm oil-based products were deforestation-free — were among the panellists sharing their grass-roots approaches to forest preservation at a Headquarters press conference today.
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Press Conference by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping (8 February 2012)
Briefing correspondents at Headquarters on the situations in South Sudan and other African countries, Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, said that tackling the myriad challenges on the continent required the United Nations to continue strengthening its partnership with the African Union and other regional actors.
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Press Conference on United Nations Millennium Campaign, Nigeria’s Progress towards Realizing Millennium Development Goals (7 February 2012)
The newly appointed Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria announced a unique partnership today between her office and the United Nations Millennium Campaign, aimed at accelerating her country’s attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. Describing the partnership as a key element in her country’s “countdown” strategy, Precious Gbeneol said it would greatly help realize the Millennium Goals, not only in Nigeria but throughout Africa.
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9 February 2012 
