15 October 2008

• The campaign for Security Council rotating seats will be most controversial among Europeans: Austria, Iceland, and Turkey are competing.
  
  

• Preparations for U.N. Day Concert on 24 October are underway, though not yet announced.
  
  

• Secretary General Ban will be travelling mid-October to Geneva for talks mainly on Georgia; Quebec to attend the Francophone summit; and Boston where he will speak at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.