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Meeting of Experts Will Seek Improved Coordination, Access to Global Geospatial Information for Solving Development Challenges

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

  Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States as well as more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 October for a series of high‑profile meetings aimed at improving the global management and coordination of geospatial information and the application of geospatial technology […]

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Secretary-General Welcomes Announcement of End to Violence by Spain’s ETA

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• 23 de outubro de 2011
• Menos de um minuto

  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Spanish people have endured over 40 years of violence at the hands of ETA.  The Secretary-General shares in the hope that ETA is committed to bringing this tragic chapter for Spain to an end.   There should be an end […]

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Press Conference by Maronite Patriarch on Religious Freedom in Middle East

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

  In a press conference at Headquarters this morning, the newly elected Maronite Patriarch, His Beatitude Bechara Peter Rai, offered a message of ?communion and love? and heralded the 2,000 years of contribution by the Christian community in the Middle East. Accompanied by Bishop Gregory John Mansour of the Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, and […]

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Press Conference by Special Rapporteur on Promotion, Protection of Human Rights, Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism

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

  While it was crucial that States comply with their human rights obligations while fighting terrorism, the suffering of its victims and the prevention of terrorist acts must also receive attention from a human rights perspective, a United Nations expert told the correspondents at Headquarters this morning. ?Any sound, sustainable and comprehensive strategy for combating […]

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Delegations in Fourth Committee Herald United Nations as ?Only Credible Advocate? for Peaceful World, Forward Two Drafts on Information to General Assembly

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• 20 de outubro de 2011
• 20 min. de leitura

  ?Ambitious But Not Impossible? to Transmit ?Voice? of Organization In All Official Languages, ?Giving Locally What Is Happening Globally? The United Nations remained the ?only credible advocate? for a peaceful, free and just world, and its voice must be heard clearly and loudly in every corner of the globe and by all its peoples, […]

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Press Statement by Chairman of Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict

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

  At its thirty-second meeting, on 30 September 2011, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the consideration of the first report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Iraq (S/2011/366), covering the period from January 2008 to December 2010, to address the following message to the […]

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Visiting Fukushima in August, Secretary-General Says ?We Came to Offer Support, but in the End, We Took More Than We Gave; We Took Inspiration?

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• 20 de outubro de 2011
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following are the remarks of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Mainichi Shimbun Exhibition on the Great East Japan Earthquake, in New York, 20 October: I remember the morning of March 11 ? waking to news of the devastation.  I immediately sent a message of support to the Japanese people.  I told them they were […]

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New Head of Delegation of European Union Presents Appointment Letter

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

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.) The new Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, Thomas Mayr-Harting, presented his letter of appointment to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today. Mr. Mayr-Harting has been the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in New York since December […]

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Press Conference by Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Iran

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

  A pattern of violations had emerged regarding Iran?s treatment of civil society actors ? including political dissidents ? that spoke to unfair trials and the targeting of human rights defenders, and the best strategy for substantially improving those conditions was not to penalize the Government, but rather engage it in dialogue that would evolve […]

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Press Conference by Special Representative of Secretary-General for Libya

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

  The reported death of former Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi, who had ruled his country since 1969, marked a key moment in the transition to a ?new Libya?, and as soon as the National Transitional Council (NTC) formally declared liberation, the path towards the formation of an interim Government would begin, the United Nations special […]