New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sounded an optimistic note for Haiti, saying its future looks better than any emerging markets thanks to US trade legislation approved by Washington last year.
"Haiti stands a better chance than almost any emerging economy, not only to weather the current economic storms, but to prosper," Ban said in an opinion piece to be published in the New York Times on Tuesday.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday asked the group of 20 leading economies meeting in London next week to support 1 trillion dollars to assist developing countries suffering from the deep global recession.
New York - Humanitarian workers and United Nations personnel on diplomatic missions have become prime targets for kidnapping, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members.
Nineteen UN staff members have been arrested, detained or are missing, Ban said, urging governments and non-government organizations to help locate and free them.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Peter W Galbraith, a US expert on arms control, as deputy chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.
Galbraith will replace Christopher Alexander of Canada to work in war-torn Afghanistan, where NATO and non-NATO countries maintain 55,000 military personnel and the US has more than 10,000 troops to fight terrorism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
New York - The meeting of the world's 20 leading economies in London on April 2 has the potential of making profound changes in the global economy that is suffering a deep recession, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
"The stakes at the London summit are large," Ban told the UN General Assembly, which convened to discuss the world economic downturn, triggered initially by a US financial crisis and which threatens funding for UN programmes.
New York - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday called for the release of two Canadian diplomats kidnapped in Niger last December, following the release over the weekend of a local staff member who was held hostage with them.
The captors set free Soumana Mounkaila, a driver who was with former Canadian ambassador to the UN Robert Fowler and his aide Louis Guay when they were abducted on December 14, 2008, while riding in a UN vehicle.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sounded an optimistic note for Haiti, saying its future looks better than any emerging markets thanks to US trade legislation approved by Washington last year.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday asked the group of 20 leading economies meeting in London next week to support 1 trillion dollars to assist developing countries suffering from the deep global recession.
New York - Humanitarian workers and United Nations personnel on diplomatic missions have become prime targets for kidnapping, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Peter W Galbraith, a US expert on arms control, as deputy chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.
New York - The meeting of the world's 20 leading economies in London on April 2 has the potential of making profound changes in the global economy that is suffering a deep recession, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
New York - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday called for the release of two Canadian diplomats kidnapped in Niger last December, following the release over the weekend of a local staff member who was held hostage with them.
