Mr. Eide previously served with the United Nations as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to undertake a comprehensive review of Kosovo in 2005 and as Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-1998.
As a result of the advice provided to him, the Secretary-General decided to set up a Scientific Advisory Board, bringing together eminent specialists from natural sciences, social and human sciences, and engineering, and from diverse backgrounds and regions.
It was left to the UN Secretary-General's special envoy to Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, to announce that the two leaders had agreed to resume direct negotiations in Nicosia in mid-January with no preconditions.
Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mr Jan Eliasson, and the Director of Columbia University and The Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
They were angered by a panel appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, to advise him on possible human-rights violations during the war.
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Addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the letter called on him to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.
The objective of this Board will be to advise the UN Secretary General on science-related issues, and enable him to provide advice to UN Member States in these areas.
Bremer heads to the United Nations on Monday to meet with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the president of the Iraqi Governing Council and other officials.
One way the alliance can send signals is to endow the secretary-general, however fictitiously, with enormous powers.
He succeeds Anna Tibaijuka, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedicated service to the Organization and her commitment in leading UN-Habitat.
Ms. COHEN: No one--no country has stepped up to the plate, but what the UN secretary-general seems to be suggesting is that there could be an international peacekeeping force.
He considered that, through my election to the position of Secretary-General, the United Nations would at last give the African Continent an opportunity to contribute to the progress of the whole international community.
Speaking to reporters, the Secretary-General thanked Norway for helping to bring energy for all to the top of the political agenda.
In a video message to the High-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
His office says that it is not a war-crimes investigation but part of an internal process to advise the secretary-general.
Officially launched by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Michel Jarraud, Chair to UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, the event brought together government representatives, local communities, NGOs, UN organizations and eminent specialists in water security to discuss how to harness cooperation at all levels, from the local to the national and international levels, and across all socioeconomic sectors.
And I think that's one of the areas that we'll, obviously, be talking to the secretary-general and his colleagues about.
The acknowledgement that the UN's strategy is fraught with problems comes from Jan Pronk, the special envoy to the WSSD of the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
Mr Rajapaksa, who is one of several brothers of the president in government, said the court had erred in delivering the documents to the secretary-general of parliament and not to himself.
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Taking this opportunity, we express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his good offices mission, as approved by the Security Council, and for the efforts aimed at finding a mutually agreed solution.
At the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Cannes, on 3 and 4 November, the Secretary-General urged the G-20 leaders to deliver united leadership to address the urgent problems of the world economy, and welcomed the efforts at the Cannes Summit in this regard.
Ms Dyer claims she appealed against the decision and questioned the scoring system - and that she wrote to the party's general secretary, Colin Smyth - but received no response.
But Jeffrey Sachs, a renowned economist and special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general, said neither candidate will be able to stop continued financial woes in the near future.
Aha, say the knowing, a fiendish device to weaken the influence of a southern secretary-general (Mr Annan is Ghanaian) by harnessing him to a western female deputy.
Since the no-fly zone began to be enforced both the group's secretary-general, Amr Moussa, and individual members such as Algeria have voiced concern that the operation may be exceeding its mandate to protect Libyan civilians.
In practice, the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army militia appears to be falling apart, but the secretary-general warns Israel that the militia must be disbanded, its heavy weapons removed and its prisoners released.
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.
Paying personal visits to Beijing and Moscow, the former UN secretary-general seems to have coaxed Mr Assad's Chinese and Russian friends, hitherto reluctant to endorse anything that smelled of outside intervention, into supporting an approach that opens the door to this option, if only by a crack.
She also referred to the preparations for the launch of a new Ocean Compact by the Secretary-General, to which UNESCO and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission had contributed significantly.
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