Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said many of the three million people in the Port-au-Prince area lack food,water, shelter and electricity.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

Doctor Fukuda, an acting assistant director-general, said the W.H.O.has been working with the member states to prepare for a pandemic.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

The big three automakers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - told Congress that they needed loans or they faced bankruptcy.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Among other things, it calls on the secretary-general to appoint a special representative to lead efforts to end sexual violence.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

This week,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent his top aide to press for an end to the Sri Lankan conflict.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Then,on April twenty-fifth, General Taylor received word that a large Mexican force had crossed the border a few kilometers up the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

In New York, the United Nations secretary-general reacted to a dispute over e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in England.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The WHO's Director-General,Margaret Chan, has expressed concern there is not a good process in place to produce enough vaccine against the virus.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Russia's Foreign Ministry praised the exchange,saying, "The action was taken in the general context of improved Russian-U.S.relations."

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the food crisis has forced millions of families into poverty and hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

W.H.O.Director-General Margaret Chan declared the sickness a pandemic a disease that has spread to many nations.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Late in nineteen thirty-five, workers at several General Motors factories began a "sit-down" strike at their machines to demand better pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

But United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the Copenhagen Accord is only a beginning.

VOA: special.2009.12.26