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This antiphonary (a book containing the choral parts of the Holy Office) was transferred to the Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati di Siena in 1811 from its place of origin, the Augustinian monastery of San Salvatore in Lecceto near Siena.

In this regard, we fully support the work of the Secretary-General and we invite the United Nations system — and above all UN Women and its Executive Director, Ms. Bachelet — to implement it.

[...] [...] as Lord Raj Loomba, creator of the Loomba Foundation, a British charitable organization that has been campaigning for widows since 1997, and its President, Cherie Blair, wife of the former British Prime Minister; Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Partnerships, and Ban Soon-taek, wife of Secretary-General [...]

The Commission welcomes the establishment of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and its operationalization, which will strengthen the ability of the United Nations to support the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women, and welcomes the appointment of Michelle Bachelet as the first Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-Women.

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), headed by Under-Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet, and a non-governmental organization, 5WCW, will generate renewed global awareness of both this new super-agency and the conference, raise consciousness and increase media coverage and funds for both.

Panellists included Ms. Michele Bachelet, Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Cecilia Martinez, Director of the UN-Habitat New York Office, and Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF.

During the tenth session, the Chair of the Permanent Forum and members of the Forum met with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN-Women, to explore how UN-Women and the Forum can cooperate to promote indigenous women’s rights.

Although Ms. Bachelet aptly highlighted the modest progress made by Member States and the United Nations in advancing the agenda of resolution 1325 (2000), we must heed her warning that we are very far from sufficiently and systematically integrating women into the process of conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

We are encouraged that UN-Women, under the strong leadership of Ms. Bachelet, has been resolutely promoting the agenda of women and peace and security as one of its priorities.

We pledge our full support to Ms. Bachelet and hope that UN Women will have a leading role in the area of women, peace and security.

I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Secretary-General on the appointment of Michelle Bachelet to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

We are convinced that the new gender entity, led by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, will also make a substantial and valuable contribution to this goal.

I would also like to thank Ambassador Lazarus Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Executive-Director of UN-Women, and Ms. Orzala Ashraf Nemat, of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, for their very instructive briefings.

We would also thank Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe and Ms. Orzala Ashraf Nemat for their briefings, which provided a serious and complete framework for our debate.

Following a statement by the Vice-President, presentations were made by the following panellists: Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women); Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund; Martin Mogwanja, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF; and Ramiro Lopez da Silva, Deputy Executive Director, WFP.

We also thank SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon; Under-Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet; Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council; and Ms. Orzala Ashraf Nemat of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security for their statements.

): We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Under-Secretary-General and head of UN-Women, Ms. Bachelet, the President of the Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Kapambwe, and the representative of civil society, Ms. Nemat, for their work on the issue of women, peace and security and for the information they have provided on the state of affairs in this area.

In light of that achievement, South Africa is encouraged by the various frameworks that have been created to ensure the implementation of that resolution, in particular the creation of UN-Women under the leadership of Ms. Michele Bachelet.

We also look forward to engaging with the newly established UN Women, and we take this opportunity to congratulate Mrs. Michelle Bachelet on her assumption of the leadership of that new agency.

She commended the Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet, and the staff of UN-Women for their work and dedication over the first year of the Entity’s existence.

The meeting was opened by the Secretary-General by video message, followed by briefings by the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), Michelle Bachelet; the Under-SecretaryGeneral for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy; the Permanent Representative of Malaysia and President of the Economic and Social Council, Hamidon Ali; and the representative of the Civil Society Advisory Group to the United Nations on Women, Peace and Security, Thelma Awori.

I welcome the remarks this morning by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN-Women; His Excellency Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council; and Ms. Orzala Ashraf Nemat of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, on this important issue.

I also warmly welcome to the Council Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, and Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN-Women, and thank them for their briefings.

Statements were also made by Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women; and Joan Clos, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

(South Africa): My delegation would like to express its sincere appreciation to the SecretaryGeneral, Under-Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe in his capacity as President of the Economic and Social Council, and Ms. Nemat, speaking on behalf of the NGO Working Group On Women, Peace and Security, for their statements.

We thank the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), Ms. Bachelet; the representative of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security; the representative of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations; and Ambassador Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, for their briefings to the Council this morning.

I would like to congratulate Ms. Michelle Bachelet on her appointment as Under-SecretaryGeneral for the Entity, and look forward to her strong leadership in making it fully operational by 1 January 2011.

I cherish the hope that the setting up this year of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, better known as “UN Women”, headed by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, will, amongst its other missions, back this very important development.

I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his statement, as well as Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN-Women, and Ms. Orzala Ashraf Nemat, representative of civil society, for their important contributions.