"MARTTI AHTISAARI"

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Welcoming Kosovo’s recent free and fair elections, the head of the United Nations mission there stressed today the need to form a new government without delay, at 8025th meeting.

Preventing and ending atrocity crimes: a key challenge for the UN Security Council.

General Assembly Seventy-first session high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants - Round Table 1.

The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and "disappeared" during the military dictatorship in Argentina, received the 2010 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize at UNESCO headquarters today in the presence of the Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Côte d'Ivoire Alassane Dramane Ouattara and several other Heads of State or Government. UNESCO

Ali Abdussalam Treki, General Assembly President, Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, John Agyekum Kufuor, the former President of Ghana and the African Union, Martti Ahtisaari, the former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, speak to the press about the General Assembly’s Thematic Debate on Peacekeeping

The Security Council is unable to break the deep divisions on the future status of Kosovo. Belgium's Ambassador Johan Verbeke says that the positions made by leaders of Serbia and Kosovo's Albanian majority "confirm that their views remain irreconcilable." UNTV

Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin comments on the drafting process for a resolution on the status of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo saying "the updated version of the draft has not changed anything as far as we're concerned." UNTV

The head of a recent Security Council mission to the Kosovo says full and lasting reconciliation in the Serbian province will require a sustainable commitment by all stakeholders. UNTV

The head of the Security Council's six-day mission to Kosovo tells Security Council members that the positions of the sides on the settlement proposal for the province remain far apart. UNTV