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Member States Consider Ways to Energize, Fully Engage Powers of General Assembly, Pledge to Restore Institutional Balance with Other United Nations Bodies

• por Notícias
• 19 de novembro de 2009
• 35 min. de leitura

Acting on Recommendations of Budgetary Committee, Assembly Fills Vacancies on Key Administrative, Contributions, Auditing, Investment Panels The General Assembly?s powers to discuss issues of the greatest concern to its Member States — from international peace and security, to development, human rights and international law — should be completely engaged to take advantage of the 192-member […]

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In Copenhagen, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly Meeting, Solid Foundation Will Be Laid for Progress, Binding Treaty Reached in 2010

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

  Following is a text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the informal meeting of the General Assembly plenary on climate change, in New York today, 19 November: Yesterday I returned from the Rome Food Summit. The world has more than enough food, I told delegates.  Yet more than 1 billion people go hungry.  This is […]

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Secretary-General, in Message to Mark International Day for Slavery’s Abolition, Says List of Similarly Abhorrent Modern Practices Is ‘Shockingly Long’

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

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Message for the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, to be observed on 2 December: On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, we express our commitment to the complete eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices. Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that […]

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Legislative Voice, Vote Will Be Vital in Keeping Commitments to World?s Most Vulnerable, Secretary-General Tells Parliamentary Hearing at United Nations

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

Following are UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon?s remarks to the Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations in New York today, 19 November: It is a pleasure to take part in this Parliamentary Hearing.  I highly value your role as parliamentarians. As lawmakers, you take the work that is done in these halls and help make it real on […]

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Press Conference by General Assembly President on Informal Climate Change Meeting

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

The upcoming conference in Copenhagen on climate change should not only be attended by the most interested and concerned Heads of State, but there should also be good results, the President of the General Assembly said this evening at a Headquarters press conference after an informal Assembly meeting on the matter. Assembly President Ali Abdussalam […]