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Security Council Told ?Wait and See? Attitude Not Acceptable If It Wishes to Remain at Forefront of Maintaining International Peace and Security

• por Notícias
• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 48 min. de leitura

  Debate on Working Methods Hears Calls for Review of ?Anachronistic? Practices, Greater Transparency, Interaction with Non-Members, Access to Subsidiary Bodies Improving transparency, interaction with non-Security Council Member States and the efficiency of its activities were some of the issues addressed by speakers during a day-long debate in the chamber today on the body?s working […]

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States Parties to Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Elect Nine Experts to Monitoring Committee, Learn Two More States Have Joined Treaty

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• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination this morning elected by secret ballot nine members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace those whose four-year terms were set to expire on 19 January 2012. The Committee is the body of independent experts that […]

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Secretary-General Warns Conflict, Instability Scare Away Much-Needed Investment, Often When Fragile Countries Need It Most; Businesses Succeed When Societies Do

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• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as delivered, to the Private Sector Forum at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, Republic of Korea, 30 November: I am delighted to welcome you to this Private Sector Forum.  One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that […]

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Aid Is Not Charity, Says Secretary-General, but Smart Investment in Security, Prosperity, an Engine of Growth that Creates Jobs, Expands Markets

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• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as delivered, to the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, Republic of Korea, on 30 November: It is a great honour to meet you today.  Good morning.  Annyong hashimnikka.  President Lee [Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea], our thanks on behalf of the United Nations for […]

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Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Amends One Entry on Its Sanctions List

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• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

  On 30 November 2011, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) amended the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII […]

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General Assembly Adopts Six Resolutions, Concluding Debates on Question of Palestine, Wider Middle East Situation

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• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 1 horas de leitura

  Speakers Focus on Occupation, Regional Uprisings to Demand More Democracy Stressing that popular uprisings across the Middle East were demanding greater inclusiveness and democracy, General Assembly delegates called today for peace and justice ? as well as ?re-energized? efforts to resolve old regional conflicts ? to reign across the region, as it adopted six […]

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Security Council Told ?Wait and See? Attitude Not Acceptable If It Wishes to Remain at Forefront of Maintaining International Peace and Security

• por Notícias
• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 48 min. de leitura

  Debate on Working Methods Hears Calls for Review of ?Anachronistic? Practices, Greater Transparency, Interaction with Non-Members, Access to Subsidiary Bodies Improving transparency, interaction with non-Security Council Member States and the efficiency of its activities were some of the issues addressed by speakers during a day-long debate in the chamber today on the body?s working […]

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States Parties to Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination Elect Nine Experts to Monitoring Committee, Learn Two More States Have Joined Treaty

• por Notícias
• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination this morning elected by secret ballot nine members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace those whose four-year terms were set to expire on 19 January 2012. The Committee is the body of independent experts that […]

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Secretary-General Warns Conflict, Instability Scare Away Much-Needed Investment, Often When Fragile Countries Need It Most; Businesses Succeed When Societies Do

• por Notícias
• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as delivered, to the Private Sector Forum at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, Republic of Korea, 30 November: I am delighted to welcome you to this Private Sector Forum.  One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that […]

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Aid Is Not Charity, Says Secretary-General, but Smart Investment in Security, Prosperity, an Engine of Growth that Creates Jobs, Expands Markets

• por Notícias
• 30 de novembro de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as delivered, to the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, Republic of Korea, on 30 November: It is a great honour to meet you today.  Good morning.  Annyong hashimnikka.  President Lee [Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea], our thanks on behalf of the United Nations for […]