UN ‘historic meetings’ amid multiple crises

UN: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Tuesday that the United Nations is scheduled to convene a series of summit meetings within next 10 days to deal with the global crises, such as climate change and financial and economic crises, and he voiced his hope that the upcoming summit meetings will be successful.

Ban, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua at the UN Headquarters in New York, said that the United Nations will open a “very historic” General Assembly (GA) session on Tuesday afternoon, the largest yet summit in addressing climate change issues on Sept. 22, and “encouraging” Security Council summit on non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament on Sept. 24.

The 192-member world body is expected to convene these summit meetings at a time that the world is still fighting the food, climate change, flu and global financial and economic crises, which have affected global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

UNITED NATIONS, Wednesday, Xinhua