Among other things, it calls on the secretary-general to appoint a special representative to lead efforts to end sexual violence.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

In New York, the United Nations secretary-general reacted to a dispute over e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in England.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

This week,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent his top aide to press for an end to the Sri Lankan conflict.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

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.

UN: Secretary-General

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.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

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.

BBC: Cyprus veterans share chemistry