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International Panel on Climate Change -a Nobel Prize Winnner

The Interngovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the former US Vice President Al Gore have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". 

For further information, see:
IPCC official web site
DagDok: Environment and Sustainable Development

 

UN force to Darfur

After months of discussion the Security Council unanimously passed resolution 1769 creating UNAMID - the United Nations/African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur, authorizing 26,000 troops and police to protect civilians in Darfur, thus constituting the largest peacekeeping operation in the world. 

Under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, UNAMID is authorized to take the necessary action to support implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement, as well as to protect its personnel and civilians. UNAMID will not be able to seize illegal arms as proposed initially but can simply ‘monitor’ such weapons. All mention of sanctions, international pressure or military action against Sudan and strong statements against the pro-militia government have been deliberately kept out of the resolution.
 
UNAMID has an initial mandate of 12 moths and, according to the plan, it will start operating by the end of the year.  
 
For further information, see:
 
Sanctions against Iran

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1747 on 24 March 2007.

The resolution tightens the sanctions banning Iran's arms exports and freezing its assets abroad. This is the response to Iran's refusal to comply with repeated UN demands to suspend all activities related to its enrichment program.  

The resolution was adopted after months-long debate, since Russia and China, with strong commercial ties with Tehran, have been reluctant to support sanctions. 

For further information, see:
UN News Centre 24 March 2007
Security Council Press Release SC/8980
Security Council Meeting S/PV.5647, 24 March 2007
IAEA, In Focus: IAEA and Iran

Urgent climate warning

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its second report at a meeting in Paris on 2 February 2007. The IPPC report states that "human activity" such as the burning of fossil fuels and intensive agriculture are very likely to be behind the hotter temperatures and the rising sea levels.
 
The United Nations Panel, which groups 2,500 scientists from more than 130 nations, asserts that there is no longer a possibility that the global climate change in the last fifty years could be explained by natural variation.
 
To view a summary of the report: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis
See also:

Jan Eliasson appointed UN Special Envoy on Darfur

Kofi Annan has appointed Jan Eliasson a Special Envoy on the Darfur crisis. Annan’s appointment came after consultations with SecretaryGeneral-designate Ban Ki-Moon. Eliasson’s task is to deal with the humanitarian and security crisis and to re-energise the international political process on Darfur .

See
UN News Centre
UN News Focus: Sudan

Kofi Annan leaves office after 10 years

At his last conference as UN Secretary-General his expressed sadness for being unable to prevent the war in Iraq. 

He said his lowest moments involved his failure to prevent the Iraq war, the deaths of 22 UN staffers in Baghdad, including special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil, in a Baghdad attack in August 2003, and the way the oil-for food corruption scandal.

Among his proudest achievements, Mr Annan cited the promotion of human rights and social and economic development and the approval by UN member states last year of the concept of "Responsibility to Protect".

Kofi Annan' last press conference as UN Secretary-General, see
UN News Centre,  Press Conferences, 19 December 2006

Security Council approves appeals over terrorism blacklist

Through the unanimous adaption of resolution 1730 the Security Council has adopted fair and clear procedures for placing individuals and entities on sanctions lists and for removing them. 

 
South Korean appointed as the United Nations eighth UN Secretary-General

The General Assembly has adopted a resolution by acclamation appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon to succeed Kofi Annan as the next UN Secretary-General.

Ban will become the eighth Secretary-General  on January 1 when Annan's second five-year term expires.

See
UN New Centre, 13 October 2006
UN New Focus: Secretary-General Designate
General Assembly document A/61/L.3

 
The 61st session of the General Assembly opens

The 61st session of the General Assembly began work on 12 September 2006. Ambassador Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa from the Kingdom of Bahrain was elected President of the Assembly - the third women to occupy this post.

Counter-terrorism strategies, the promotion of gender equalilty, procurement reforms and the Millennium Development Goals are topics to be highlighted during the 61 Session.

See
United Nations General Assembly 61st Session
Provisional Agenda
GA President
GA President Acceptance Speech

 

Text: Gunnel Torén | Dag Hammarskjöld Library | Latest update: 30/08/2011