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Challenge for Leaders is Delivery, Deputy Secretary-General Tells High-level Event on 10 Years of New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Millennium Goals

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

  Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to a high-level event to mark 10 Years of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the Millennium Development Goals: “Progress, Challenges and the Way Forward”, in New York on 7 October: I am pleased to join you to mark the tenth anniversary of the New Partnership for […]

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Deputy Secretary-General, at Launch of Development Progress Report, Calls Findings ‘Playbook’ in Efforts to Score ‘Resounding Victory’ for Africa’s People

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

  Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s closing remarks at the launch of the 2011 report on assessing progress in Africa towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in New York on 6 October: It is a pleasure to launch the 2011 Africa MDG report.  I am grateful to see so many African ambassadors who can […]

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Press Conference New Partnership for Africa?s Development

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

In the 10 years since its creation, the New Partnership for Africa?s Development (NEPAD) had helped countries improve their agriculture, infrastructure and health sectors, and future priorities now centred on working with regional economic communities to further increase the continent?s engagement with the international community, top United Nations and regional officials said today at a […]

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Press Conference on 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Recipients

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

  The work of Nobel Peace Prize recipients, Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf and peace activists Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman, embodied exactly what Alfred Nobel had in mind for the Prize, a senior United Nations rights advocate said today at a Headquarters press conference. Speaking via phone, Margot Wallström, the Secretary-General?s Special Representative on […]

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Press Conference by Outgoing Special Coordinator for Lebanon

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

  At his last Headquarters press conference before the end of a three-year term as United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Michael Williams said today that his departure came at a time of profound change and tumult in the Middle East and that his ardent wish was for democracy to flourish as real peace took […]

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Budget Committee Takes Up Reports of Office for Partnerships, Committee for Programme and Coordination

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• 9 de outubro de 2011
• 14 min. de leitura

  In Address, General Assembly President Urges Committee, In Budget Year, To ?Work as Part of Same Team? to Reach Timely Decisions, Save Scarce Resources As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) took up its agenda item on programme planning today, delegates praised the work of the United Nations main subsidiary body for planning, programming […]

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Department of Public Information to Host Press Conferences by Human Rights Experts, in Conjunction with General Assembly?s Third Committee, 10 October – 1 November

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

As the six Main Committees of the General Assembly begin their work, the Department of Public Information and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will hold a series of press conferences by human rights experts expected to attend this year?s session of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural). The Committee considers […]

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Adopting Consensus Text, Budget Committee Ensures Six Countries Maintain Voting Rights in General Assembly, Despite Budget Arrears

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

  Also Takes Up Reports on Work of Board of Auditors, Focusing on Voluntary Funds Administered by Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees In a session during which the General Assembly was slated to scrutinize the complex methodology used to determine each Member State?s annual budget contribution, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) […]

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Questions of Western Sahara, Turks and Caicos, Guam, Gibraltar Central to Fourth Committee Debate as United Nations Urged Not to ?Turn a Blind Eye? to Hardships

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• 5 de outubro de 2011
• Menos de um minuto

CORRECTION In Press Release GA/SPD/479 issued 4 October, during the debate on the question of Western Sahara, the statement made by journalist Jose Maria Garre Gil was incorrectly attributed to Juan Jose Ibarretxe Markuartu, President of the Gobierno Vasco. * *** * Fonte: UN

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Addressing General Assembly?s Legal Committee, Deputy Secretary-General Outlines United Nations Framework to Bolster Rule of Law, Transitional Justice

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

  Following are the remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro to the Sixth Committee (Legal) on the rule of law at national and international levels, today, 5 October, in New York: Let me first congratulate you, Mr. Chairman, on your election. I also extend my best wishes to the other members of the Bureau as they assume […]