United Nations (UN) General Assembly

The meeting will be held in line with “twin” resolutions in 2016 of the General Assembly and the Security Council on the review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture. These resolutions renew the UN's commitment to conflict prevention as embodied in the UN Charter. On Friday, Amena Yassine, ...

The meeting will be held in line with twin resolutions in 2016 of the General Assembly and the Security Council on the review of the United Nations peace-building architecture. These resolutions renew the UN's commitment to conflict prevention as embodied in the UN Charter. On Friday, Amena Yassine, ...

1, 2017: Kim Jong Un says in a New Year's address that preparations for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile have "reached the final stage." Jan. ... 19: Trump tells the U.N. General Assembly the United States would "totally destroy North Korea" if forced to defend itself or its allies. He refers to Kim ...

Syria: Joint NGO Statement for United Nations General Assembly Informal Debate on the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria ... Second, the cooperation of states, the UN system, as well as civil society, including through access to documentation and material, will be crucial to ...

Smart Dubai participates in UN General Assembly ... DUBAI: Dubai's expertise in smart city development has been highlighted on the international stage with the participation of Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director-General of the Smart Dubai Office, SDO, at the United Nations, UN, General Assembly in ...

UNITED NATIONS – The 193-member General Assembly – one of the highest policy-making bodies at the United Nations – will get a much-needed break, come September, when a woman will preside over its 73rd session, only the fourth in the history of the world body. The two who are in the running are: ...

Tayseer Khaled , member of the PLO's Executive Committee , Head of the Palestinian Expatriate Affairs Department called to refer the crime of killings committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, to a special session held in the UN General Assembly in order to ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 22 – The UN Department of Public Information, acting against Press coverage of UN corruption cases, without hearing or appeal had Inner City Press ... On March 22 Inner City Press sought to cover the General Assembly event on water, with for example Lake Chad having shrunk by 90%.

It was to have been a momentous morning for Pitbull: As part of World Water Day On Thursday, the proudly Cuban-American rapper was scheduled to address delegates at the United Nations' storied General Assembly Hall in New York about the global water crisis. During his remarks, he was to announce ...

“So, on this International Day, let us all consider how we can better promote tolerance, inclusion and respect for diversity in all nations and among all communities,” the UN chief said. “Let us work to eliminate messages of hatred – the concept of 'us' and 'them'; the false attitude that we can accept some and ...

In the document, the expert surveys his previous reports to the Council and the UN General Assembly and highlights numerous recommendations on ... free trade agreements, military expenditure, tax evasion, reform of the United Nations system and the obligations of intergovernmental organizations.

7 March 2018: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has welcomed progress made under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme on tackling illicit trade in diamonds and its role in armed conflict. Some governments noted linkages between diamond production and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

14 de marzo de 2018, 16:42United Nations, Mar 15 (Prensa Latina) Miroslav Lajcak, president of the United Nations General Assembly''s 72nd Session Period will start a tour of Colombia and Brazil this week, said his spokeman Brenden Varma. The tour starts on Colombia Thursday where he will be until Saturday, and ...

15 de marzo de 2018, 00:19United Nations, Mar 15 (Prensa Latina) Miroslav Lajcak, president of the United Nations General Assembly''s 72nd Session Period starts Thursday in Colombia a two-nation Latin American tour that will take him also to Brazil this week. His spokeman Brenden Varma said he will ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 4 – Amid talk that a call for a ceasefire in Syria was unrealistic, Inner City Press on February 22 alone staked out an evening meeting of the UN Security Council's Elected Ten members, exclusive video here. On February 24 the changed draft was approved 15-0. More than a week later on Sunday ...

Slovakian President Kiska addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters i FILE PHOTO: Slovakian President Andrej Kiska addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.

The ICSC is an independent 15-member expert body established by the UN General Assembly to regulate and coordinate conditions of service of UN staff. ... Photo: Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA) and United Nations International Civil Servants Federation ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 2 – Three months after the arrest for UN bribery of Patrick Ho, the head of China Energy Fund Committee full funded by CEFC China ... for Ho, of bribing former UN President of the General Assembly Sam Kutesa, now as then the foreign minister of Uganda, since 2005, allegedly for the benefit of ...

The Permanent Mission of Uzbekistan to the United Nations developed a draft resolution on “Strengthening regional and international cooperation for peace, security and sustainable socio-economic development in the Central Asian region”, the Uzbek media reported. The launch of the initiative of ...

United Nations staff in Geneva carried out a two-hour work stoppage Monday over "unfair" pay cuts, briefly disrupting high-level events with the ... The work stoppage from 3:00-5:00pm forced the UN's top rights body to delay a panel, featuring its rights chief and the president of the General Assembly, for an ...

The presidency of the General Assembly of the United Nations is the position of democratic and universal election of a member state of greater relevance within the multilateral event, according to the institution's founding charter. The presidency of the U.N. General Assembly is designated each year, ...

In its resolution 72/2 entitled “Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations: requests under Article 19 of the Charter,” the UN General Assembly decided that the following Member States, although in arrears in the payment of their dues, shall be permitted to vote until the ...

Journalists who are awarded fellowships are given the incomparable opportunity to observe international diplomatic deliberations at the United Nations, to make professional contacts that will serve them for years to come. Fellows also get a chance to interact with seasoned journalists from around the world ...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- President of the UN General Assembly Miroslav Lajcak on Monday stressed the importance of conflict prevention with regard to peacekeeping. "The United Nations was created to save people from the horrors of war, not to react once those horrors are in motion," ...

Liberia has received the overwhelming endorsement of the African Group of Ambassadors to the United Nations to chair the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly during the 73rd Session of the Assembly which begins in September. Formally referred to as the Special Political and Decolonization ...

New York, USA – Liberia has received the overwhelming endorsement of the African Group of Ambassadors to the United Nations, to chair the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly during the 73rd Session of the Assembly which begins in September. Formally referred to as the Special Political ...

UNITED NATIONS, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Miroslav Lajcak, president of the UN General Assembly, said here Monday that multilateralism was crucial in solving challenges to the protection of marine biodiversity. Member States should focus on reaching an internationally binding agreement to protect areas ...