Asia Pacific

Ibrahim Gambari

UN envoy hopes next visit to Myanmar will spur dialogue

8 October 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Envoy to Myanmar voiced hope today that his visit next month to the South-East Asian nation, where authorities have used force against peaceful demonstrators in recent weeks, will spur dialogue between the Government and the opposition, led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Public-private partnerships key to advances in Asia-Pacific region – Ban Ki-moon

5 October 2007
Partnerships between governments and the private sector are key to fostering development in the Asia-Pacific region, which is home to more than half the world's people and accounts for a quarter of international trade, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.

Ban Ki-moon disappointed by delay to Nepalese elections

5 October 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced disappointment at the decision of Nepal’s interim Government to postpone Constituent Assembly elections scheduled for next month, stressing that the people of the Himalayan country deserve their opportunity to express their political aspirations.
Ban Ki-moon (R) addresses Security Council

Myanmar should take ‘bold actions’ towards democracy, says Ban Ki-moon

5 October 2007
Myanmar needs to take major steps towards democratizing, protecting human rights and accelerating its national reconciliation process, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling authorities’ recent use of force against peaceful demonstrators in the Asian country “abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General welcomes Declaration to strengthen inter-Korean cooperation

4 October 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the signing in Pyongyang by the leaders of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea of a declaration to bolster cooperation between the two countries and promote peace and security in the region.

UN envoy briefs Secretary-General on Myanmar visit

4 October 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was briefed today by his Special Envoy for Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, who has just returned from the region following discussions with senior Government officials and the Nobel laureate and political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.

Alleged suspect in deadly violence in Timor-Leste arrested, UN police report

3 October 2007
Police in Timor-Leste today arrested a man alleged to have played a part in the violence of May last year, when at least 37 people were killed and 155,000 others, 15 per cent of the population, driven from their homes in the small South-east Asian country that the United Nations helped shepherd to independence from Indonesia in 2002.
Family benefits from the programme

Displaced for 10 years, Sri Lankans find new homes under UN-backed project

3 October 2007
More than 360 displaced families have been given new homes in northern Sri Lanka under a United Nations-backed programme after spending a decade in overcrowded welfare centres for internally displaced persons (IDP).
Ambassador Aslov of Tajikistan

At UN, Tajikistan calls for fight against terrorism to focus on root causes

3 October 2007
The international community should step up its efforts aimed at tackling the root causes of terrorism, from combating extremist ideology to eliminating poverty, Tajikistan’s Permanent Representative told the General Assembly today in New York.

Armenia and Azerbaijan offer views on Nagorno-Karabakh during UN debate

3 October 2007
As the United Nations General Assembly continued its high-level debate today, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan expressed their views on the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.