The global efforts to achieve the social and economic targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were at the centre of talks today between General Assembly President Ali Treki and Ecuadors President Rafael Correa. Mr. Treki and Mr. Correa discussed the high-level meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York in [Read More]
Haitian President Ren Prval has set 28 November as the date for the people of the earthquake-devastated nation to vote for his successor, a move welcomed today by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Presidential decrees issued last Thursday and yesterday have also mandated that the Provisional Electoral Council organize legislative polls on [Read More]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Jamaica this weekend to attend a Caribbean summit and discuss regional efforts to try to achieve the social and economic targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations announced today. The Thirty-First Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the [Read More]
A renowned Costa Rican advocate against organized crime has been chosen as the next head of the United Nations-backed commission charged with dismantling illegal armed groups and tackling impunity in Guatemala. A UN spokesperson announced today that Francisco DallAnese Ruiz, the current Attorney-General of Costa Rica, will succeed [Read More]
Despite rising budget deficit and severe fiscal problems, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) industrialized and developing economies to take urgent steps to help the poor and vulnerable make ends meet through investment. “Under any circumstances we must not balance budgets on the backs of the world”s [Read More]
