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Applauding Peacebuilding Commission?s Early Successes, Speakers in Assembly Stress Fine-Tuning Still Needed to Enhance Results on Ground in Post-Conflict Countries

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• 20 de novembro de 2009
• 1 horas de leitura

Commission Chair Says 2010 Review of 4-Year-Old Panel Will Provide Chance To Better Define Its Potential Role; Assembly Wraps Up Debate on Revitalizing Work While early and concrete successes underlined the importance of the young Peacebuilding Commission and Peacebuilding Fund ‑‑ established at the General Assembly?s 2005 World Summit to help countries emerging from conflict […]

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Acting on 20th Anniversary of Child Rights Convention, Third Committee Approves Annual Resolution on Rights of the Child by Consensus

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• 20 de novembro de 2009
• 54 min. de leitura

  Recommends Six More Texts to General Assembly; Youth Year Declaration, Guidelines for Alternative Care of Children, Human Rights in Iran Among Issues Profoundly concerned that the situation of children in many parts of the world remained critical, the Third Committee approved a draft resolution that explicitly recognized the right of young people to be […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in Italy, 15-17 November 2009

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• 20 de novembro de 2009
• 2 min. de leitura

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rome on Sunday afternoon, 15 November, to attend the World Food Security Summit. On Monday, in addressing the Summit, the Secretary-General told delegates:  ?This day, more than 17,000 children will die of hunger.  One every five seconds.?  In a stark message, he stressed the heavy human costs of the […]

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Secretary-General Welcomes European Union’s Appointment of Its First President, High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy

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• 20 de novembro de 2009
• Menos de um minuto

  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General welcomes the appointment of Mr. Herman Van Rompuy as first President of the European Union, and Ms. Catherine Ashton as the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The Secretary-General looks forward to working closely with both […]

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More Ambitious Agreement in Copenhagen Can More Quickly Be Codified in Treaty, Says Secretary-General to General Assembly Informal Meeting

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• 20 de novembro de 2009
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the Informal Meeting of the Plenary on Climate Change, in New York, on 19 November: Thank you very much Mr. [General Assembly] President and I thank many distinguished delegations who made very useful and constructive comments, and suggestions on behalf of a group of countries, or in […]

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General Assembly Will Adopt Declaration, Strategy to Counter World Drug Problem under Terms of Draft Resolution Approved by Third Committee

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• 19 de novembro de 2009
• 2 horas de leitura

Total of 14 Texts Recommended to Assembly; Human Rights Situations in Myanmar, Democratic People?s Republic of Korea, Right to Food, among Other Issues Addressed Raising grave concerns over the dangers posed to political and socio-economic stability by the illegal drug trade, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today approved, by consensus, a draft resolution […]