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Security Council Is Told Implementation of Doha Document for Peace, Key to Success in Darfur, Needs Full Support of All Parties

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• 25 de outubro de 2011
• 12 min. de leitura

  Secretary-General Reports Some Progress, Significant Remaining Concerns Briefing the Security Council this afternoon on the situation in Darfur, the senior United Nations official for peacekeeping highlighted progress in the implementation of the provisions of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, and agreement between the Sudanese Government and the Justice and Liberation Movement. Hervé […]

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Secretary-General Commemorates Fortieth Anniversary of Restitution of People?s Republic of China?s Seat in United Nations

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• 25 de outubro de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message on the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the restitution to the People?s Republic of China to its seat in the United Nations, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in Beijing today, 25 October: Today we mark four decades since the passage of […]

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Secretary-General, Attending College Fund Ceremony, Hails Thurgood Marshall as ?Kindred Spirit?, Champion of Values Dear to United Nations

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• 25 de outubro de 2011
• 4 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund dinner, in New York yesterday, 24 October: Congratulations to tonight?s honourees.  What a privilege for me to be among them. Today we celebrate the sixty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and its contribution to world peace, security, development and […]

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Secretary-General Tells Students at UN4U Event, Be Bold, Think Big, ?Lift Your Wings and Fly High into the Deep Blue Sky; a UN Blue Sky?

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• 25 de outubro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the UN4U event at New Explorations in Science, Mathematics and Technology School, 24 October, in New York: Good morning, everyone.  Thank you, Karen [Tong, Secretary of the Student Government].  Thank you, everyone, for welcoming me to NEST.  What a pleasure to see all the tenth, eleventh and […]

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Press Conference on Launch of ?Global Education Digest 2011?

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• 25 de outubro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  As the role of secondary education in reducing poverty, spurring economic growth, increasing wages and fostering healthy behaviour gained traction, secondary-school enrolment was rising from Algeria to Zambia, according to a publication released at Headquarters today by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As many as 600 million students had been enrolled […]

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Press Conference on Annual Report of Observatory for Protection of Human Rights Defenders

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• 24 de outubro de 2011
• 5 min. de leitura

  While pro-democracy gains and demands for freedom and justice were sweeping the Middle East, threats and attacks against human rights defenders in that region and elsewhere around the world continued at a disturbing rate, according to a report released at Headquarters today by a leading global coalition of rights activists. ?Sadly, it?s an alarming […]

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Press Conference by Special Rapporteur on Right to Food

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• 24 de outubro de 2011
• 4 min. de leitura

  An overhaul of inequitable agricultural business models was needed to reduce global poverty and ensure long-term sustainability for farmers and farm systems, said an independent United Nations food expert at a New York Headquarters press conference today. “We need to allow small farmers to climb up the value chain,” said Olivier De Schutter, the […]

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?I Want to See Disarmament Facts on the Ground,? Secretary-General Tells Nuclear Disarmament Conference, Outlines Plans to Move Process Forward

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• 24 de outubro de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as delivered, to the Nuclear Disarmament Conference, in New York today, 24 October: It?s a great pleasure to meet you again.  As you know today is 24 October, United Nations Day.  We met three years ago.  This is my third time.  This is quite [a] meaningful reunion and I […]

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Secretary-General Says by Working Together to Apply Technology to Real-World Issues, Information and Communications Technology Can Be Catalyst for Development

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• 24 de outubro de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

  Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2011 — Broadband Leadership Summit, in Geneva, 24 October: When I attended your meeting two years ago with my Chief Information Technology Officer, it was clear to me that information and communication technologies were transforming […]

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Secretary-General Says Tunisia Elections Key Step in Country’s Democratic Transition, Significant Development in Region’s Transformation

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• 24 de outubro de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

  The following statement was issued on 23 October by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: Earlier this year, the people of Tunisia inspired the region and the world when they stood up courageously to demand democracy, freedom and dignity.  Today, they have taken another important step.  The Secretary-General congratulates the people and interim authorities […]