Europe

Reducing child mortality rates is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
World Bank/Nahuel Berger

At Alpbach, UN chief urges greater action to meet anti-poverty, sustainability goals

31 August 2013
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged participants at the European Forum Alpbach to boost action towards achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to shape a shared vision for a universal sustainable development agenda.
Special Representative Farid Zarif.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Serbia and Kosovo making positive steps towards normal relations, UN envoy says

29 August 2013
Positive steps taken by leaders in Belgrade and Pristina in recent months have led to historic agreements and fundamental progress towards normalizing relations, the top United Nations official for Kosovo said, but cautioned that implementation of agreements in northern Kosovo remains a key challenge.
Arancha Gonzalez.
WTO/Studio Casagrande (Jay Louvion/Kryvosheiev Nikita)

Ban appoints Arancha Gonzalez of Spain to head International Trade Centre

15 August 2013
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Arancha Gonzalez of Spain as Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint agency of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade and international business development.