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Taking Up Annual Report of Peacebuilding Commission, Security Council Members Call for Enhanced Cooperation between the Two Bodies

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• 28 de novembro de 2009
• 40 min. de leitura

Chairman Warns Three-Year-Old Commission Still Underutilized, Says Council, Other UN Bodies, Should Take Better Advantage of Its Potential The Peacebuilding Commission was the central intergovernmental body mandated with ensuring that the United Nations led in coordinating international efforts to help alleviate the suffering of populations in post-conflict situations, the Commission?s Chairman, Heraldo Muñoz of Chile […]

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Second Committee Approves Texts on Sustainable Mountain Development, Landlocked Developing Countries, Cyber Security

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 3 min. de leitura

  The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) approved by consensus today three draft resolutions relating, respectively, to sustainable mountain development, cyber security and landlocked developing countries. By terms of the text on landlocked developing countries, the General Assembly would express concern that the economic growth of those countries remained very susceptible to external shocks, and […]

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New Permanent Representative of Nepal Presents Credentials

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 1 min. de leitura

  (Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.) The new Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, Gyan Chandra Acharya, presented his credentials today to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Acharya was Foreign Secretary of Nepal since 2007.  Before that, he held the post of Nepal?s Permanent […]

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Photo Exhibit in Observance of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 1 min. de leitura

  A photo exhibition entitled ?The United Nations and the Palestine Refugees, 60 Years Later" will be launched at 6 p.m. on Monday, 30 November in the North East Gallery of the Visitors? Lobby.  This exhibit, presented by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), under the […]

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Secretary-General Calls for New Spirit of Cooperation that Delivers ?Real Results for Real People?, in Remarks at Global Leadership Awards Gala

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 7 min. de leitura

(Delayed in transmission.) Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the fifty-first annual UNA-USA/BCUN Global Leadership Awards gala, in New York, 23 November What a pleasure to be here this evening.  I see so many familiar faces, so many dynamic New Yorkers, so many good friends of the United Nations. I thank you for […]

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Press Conference on Sudan by Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 5 min. de leitura

According to an agreement with the Sudan People?s Liberation Army (SPLA), the United Nations would be able to conduct surprise visits to SPLA camps in Sudan to verify the presence of child soldiers, said Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, who added that such dialogue might begin for similar […]

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Press Conference by Venezuela?s Permanent Representative to the United Nations on United States Expanded Military Presence in Colombia

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 4 min. de leitura

  Expressing anger at the United States Government?s expanded presence at seven military bases in Colombia, the Venezuelan Government had asked the Security Council to place an examination of Colombia?s armed conflict on its work agenda, its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Jorge Valero Briceño, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference. Ambassador […]

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Press Conference on Secretary-General?s ?Network of Men Leaders?, Part of ?UNiTE to End Violence against Women? Campaign

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• 27 de novembro de 2009
• 5 min. de leitura

  Up to 70 per cent of women at some point in their lifetime experienced physical or sexual violence by men, most from someone they knew, which meant that men had a crucial role in ending such abuse — as fathers, friends and decision-makers, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today at a Headquarters press briefing, following […]