The BNP chief has handed the United Nations secretary-general a letter comprising the ‘inconsistencies’ of the war crimes trial. Khaleda Zia at her meeting with Ban Ki-moon on Monday also urged the United Nations to play a role for fair national elections in Bangladesh, BNP vice-president Shamsher Mubin Chowdhury informed the media on Monday evening. [...]

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon asked governments to reach a compromise on the Kyoto Protocol at Durban climate conference and to make a broader comprehensive climate agreement possible in the future. “Durban must complete what was agreed last year in Cancun,” he said at the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)-2011 conference in the capital on Monday. [...]

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has urged countries exposed to climate change to collectively air their concern before the UN climate conference in South Africa later this month. The economic cost of climate change is $130 billion and it would increase if adequate and timely steps are not taken, she said, opening the Climate Vulnerable Forum [...]

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon will arrive here today (Sunday) evening on a three-day official visit. Other than Bangladesh he will also visit to Thailand and Indonesia with the main purpose to showcase the progress and leadership of the countries in advancing women’s and children’s health in the context of ” every woman every child,” [...]