Clock ticking as Mali organises urgent polls

UNITED NATIONS, June 19 (Xinhua) -- UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, together with other senior UN officials, on Wednesday urged different governments to ensure that natural resources fuel development instead of conflict. "In too many ...

UNITED NATIONS— The United Nations' Deputy Secretary-General is urging countries to transform resource inequities that have fueled conflicts over oil, diamonds and precious metals and use those resources to finance economic development and provide ...

The Philippines' top diplomat says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have appealed to Manila not to withdraw more than 300 Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights to avoid "maximum volatility" in the ...

Manama-June19(BNA)Cabinet Secretary-General Dr. Yasser bin Isa Al-Nasser today chaired a coordination meeting and discussed the agenda of the Regional Conference on Population and Development 2013, scheduled to be held in Egypt on June 2-26. He ...

New York, June 19 : With spiralling violence in Syria stoking tension in the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday said "we must not lose sight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," whose resolution was no less urgent. ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with President Xi Jinping of China. UN Photo/Evan Schneider 19 June 2013 Meeting with Chinese leaders in Beijing today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed a range topics central to the agenda of the ...

Urging "maximum restraint" amid widespread anti-Government protests in Turkey, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Navi Pillay, the world body's human rights chief, called today for constructive dialogue to defuse tensions in the ...

A new report submitted to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said the capabilities of the private sector needs to be incorporated in the next development agenda following the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a UN ...

Calling reported ongoing settlement construction in the West Bank "unhelpful" and a "deeply worrisome trend," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today renewed his calls on Israel to heed the global community to freeze settlement activity and abide by its ...