In my first five years as Secretary-General, I have nearly doubled the number of women in senior UN positions, at the rank of Assistant Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General.
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous, who spoke as deaths mounted across the country.
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The videoconference will be opened by Kiyo Akasaka, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
The current United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Field Support is an Argentine woman by the name of Susana Malcorra.
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The man in charge, Under-Secretary-General Jean Marie Guehenno, explains the challenges of achieving freedom and democracy in war-ravaged nations.
The United Nations announced Monday that Valerie Amos, its under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will visit Damascus and Beirut, Lebanon, starting Tuesday.
"All the parties need to take further steps to ensure a cessation of violence in all its forms, " said Herve Ladsous, the U.N. under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka enlisted advertisers to join efforts to eliminate violence against women, calling on the industry to help defy destructive gender stereotypes.
The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, has said she has been given permission to visit Syria on Wednesday and that she would call for "unhindered access for humanitarian aid".
Following nomination by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, on 25 August 2010, elected Joan Clos of Spain as Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) at the level of Under-Secretary-General.
After days of trying to obtain permission from Syrian authorities to travel to the country, Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will arrive Wednesday in Damascus, she said.
More than 170 supply trucks crossed into Gaza on Monday, less than a third of the daily number that crossed in 2005, said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
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The objective of the interagency meeting, chaired by Juan Clos, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNHABITAT, and attended by senior representatives of DESA, FAO, ILO, IMF, UNDP, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, WB, and WHO amongst others, was to forge stronger partnership among UN agencies in a concerted effort to address shared urban development challenges.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, sounded a note of caution on the prospect of ending the arms embargo.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kanzo Oshima, says he is still waiting for a response after offering to send UN staff back into Afghanistan if the Taleban will guarantee their safety.
"It does seem to represent a recognition on the part of authorities of the need to introduce some reforms in these areas in order to increase production, and to produce some incentive mechanisms, " said Kenzo Oshima, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
This has traditionally been a feeble body of pen-pushers under a mild-mannered secretary-general, usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat.
Under the leadership of Secretary-General Ban, the UN has opened its doors through unique collaborations such as its Creative Community Outreach Initiative, where key film industry players in Hollywood, New York, and other creative centers around the world are helping to tell the UN story.
Last Friday, the Security Council voted unanimously to restart the oil-for-food programme under the control of the UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, for 45 days.
The Summit was organized by ITU under the patronage of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to ensure that social and economic development, which is increasingly driven by ICTs, will result in a more just, prosperous and equitable world.
If the challenger does pull off a victory in the vote on September 14th and he may he would take over the DPJ a mere three months after he had been forced to step down as secretary-general under the cloud of a political-funding scandal.
Negotiations between representatives of the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, and his aggrieved challenger, Raila Odinga, continued under the aegis of Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general.
For a start, both Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister since September, and the DPJ's secretary-general, Ichiro Ozawa, are under a cloud over the misuse of political funds.
We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisors to President George W. Bush - including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
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But under pressure from Russia, Ban Ki-moon, its secretary-general, has not formally done so.
For the past few months, diplomacy has focused on a plan, overseen by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, to negotiate an effective ceasefire under a team of monitors and to set up an interim unity government.
Under criticism for the U.N. military's performance in the Balkans, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali wanted the Eastern Slavonia operation to be part of the Bosnian NATO mission.
Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter this morning, the Security Council requested the Secretary-General to re-establish within 30 days, and for a six-month period, the Monitoring Group established by resolution 1519 (2003) with respect to the situation in Somalia.
It was particularly noteworthy insofar as it permitted a vigorous exchange of views between three of the authors of the Center study -- former four-star General John Foss (USA, Ret..) , former Under Secretary of State Eugene V.
Recent reports, however, indicate that the Department of Defense, under the forward-thinking leadership of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, strongly favors the creation of a separate military command for Africa.
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