Ban Ki-moon

Iraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups" and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country's U.N. envoy told the United Nations.
   

FM attends UN Economic and Social Council meeting

NEW YORK -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić is in New York where he is attending a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

He met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Development Program Administrator Helen Clark on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is in New York, attending a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), where he met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark on Monday.

The international community has expressed its deep concerns with Monday’s verdicts of the Egyptian court, which handed lengthy jail sentences to 3 Al-Jazeera journalists.

From Euractiv

The Bulgarian government has nominated Irina Bokova, the current director-general of UNESCO, to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations, after the second mandate of Ban Ki-Moon expires in 2016.

It is the turn of Eastern Europe to lead the world organisation, and Bokova is seen as well-placed. She may also become the first woman to take the post.

Bulgaria will nominate UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova for the post of UN Secretary-General, according to unconfirmed reports.

The proposal was made by Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, but no official statement has been released yet, Focus agency reported.

The United Nations seized World Environment Day Thursday to demand action on climate change to protect small island states threatened by rising seas, drought and floods.
      
"We have very, very alarming news from science," UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told reporters in Bonn at a new round of talks on global warming.
      

BELGRADE - Ivan Mrkic, the foreign policy advisor to the Serbian president, on Wednesday met with a group of ambassadors of Arab states to discuss the upcoming donor conference for aid for Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"Serbian leaders acted wisely and efficiently"

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić expressed his gratitude to the Chinese people, stressing that Serbia highly appreciates the assistance in overcoming the floods.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic expressed on Thursday his gratitude to the Chinese people, stressing that Serbia highly appreciates the assistance of the People's Republic of China in overcoming the impact of the catastrophic floods.