New York - The world is reeling from the "earthquake on Wall Street" but the United Nations remains confident that governments will keep their promises to assist the earth's poorest, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
At the UN General Assembly in September, nations pledged 16 billion dollars toward programmes to fight poverty and disease. With the world economy tumbling in the past weeks, there have been doubts whether donors will deliver what they promised.
New York - The conflict involving Russian and Georgian troops over South Ossetia has remained unsettled, influencing the determination of the role of the UN military observer mission in the area, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
But he urged the council to extend the mandate of the small UN force until mid-February while discussion and arrangements would bring some clarity to the situation.
New York - A spokesperson for Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has condemned Saturday's attack by Kurdish Workers' Party forces on a Turkish military border post that left 38 dead.
The spokesman expressed Ban's "deepest sympathies with the government and people of Turkey in the face of terrorist violence."
He urged "continued cooperation between the governments of Turkey and Iraq to address this threat and to promote peace and stability along their border."
New York, Sept 28 : Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda met Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon at the UN Headquarters here on Saturday.
According to the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations, the UN Secretary General assured of the United Nations'' continued support in the days ahead and expressed his readiness to assist in the socio-economic development in Nepal.
He also appreciated Nepal''s continued participation in the UN peacekeeping operations while Prachanda reiterated Nepal''s commitment to continue providing troops to UN peacekeeping missions at the call of the UN.
United Nations, Sep 28 : UN chief Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the recent string of bombings targeting civilians in India, and reiterated that nothing justifies resort to terrorism.
“The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the string of bombings in a number of cities in India in recent weeks targeting places of high civilian concentration,” his office said in a statement.
Ban’s office cited in particular Saturday’s blast in Mehrauli in New Delhi in which two were killed and 22 were injured.
New York - The terrorist bombing that killed at least 17 civilians on the outskirts of Damascus on Saturday was strongly condemned by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Ban extended his condolences to the government of Syria and the families of the victims and wished those injured a speedy recovery, the UN said, adding that Ban called for the perpetrators of this crime to be brought before justice.
In Berlin, Steinmeier said he was deeply concerned "by the number of dead and injured."
New York - The world is reeling from the "earthquake on Wall Street" but the United Nations remains confident that governments will keep their promises to assist the earth's poorest, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
New York - The conflict involving Russian and Georgian troops over South Ossetia has remained unsettled, influencing the determination of the role of the UN military observer mission in the area, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
New York - A spokesperson for Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has condemned Saturday's attack by Kurdish Workers' Party forces on a Turkish military border post that left 38 dead.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the recent string of bombings targeting civilians in India, and reiterated that nothing justifies resort to terrorism.
The terrorist bombing that killed at least 17 civilians on the outskirts of Damascus on Saturday was strongly condemned by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
