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In Somalia ?Seeds of Hope and Progress Have Begun to Sprout, But They Need to Be Carefully and Generously Nurtured?, Security Council Told

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• 15 de setembro de 2011
• 37 min. de leitura

  Top United Nations Envoy Notes Political ?Game Change?, with Agreed Road Map, ?Much Improved? Situation in Capital, but Warns No Progress without Adequate Funds Declaring the present a ?remarkable moment? for Somalia following recent broad-based agreements, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the east African country appealed to the Security Council today to […]

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Security Council Reappoints Serge Brammertz Prosecutor of International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, Departing from Length-of-Office Stipulation

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• 15 de setembro de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

The Security Council this morning decided to reappoint Serge Brammertz as Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia until 31 December 2014. Through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2007 (2011), the Council noted that it was countermanding the Tribunal?s statute by extending Mr. Brammertz?s term, which ends on 31 December 2011, for an additional […]

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Secretary-General, Marking International Democracy Day, Invokes Events in North Africa, Anniversary of Eastern Europe’s Transformation

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• 15 de setembro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, for the International Day of Democracy and the opening of “The Doers of Democracy”, a photo exhibition featuring projects of the United Nations Democracy Fund, in Geneva on 15 September: This year has been a remarkable […]

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‘The Sands Are Shifting,’ Says New General Assembly President, Opening Sixty-Sixth Session with Call to Action on United Nations to ?Rethink? Way It Does Business

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• 12 min. de leitura

Says Member States Should Demonstrate Courage, Wisdom, Tenacity In Common Search for Visionary Solutions to Today?s Vexing Challenges ?We come together at a critical juncture,? said the incoming General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser, as he opened the 193‑member body?s sixty-sixth session with a call to action on the United Nations to rethink the way […]

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Liberia?s Upcoming Elections Critically Important to Emergence from Civil War?s Shadow, Secretary-General?s Special Representative Tells Security Council

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• 10 min. de leitura

  Peacebuilding Configuration Chair Questions States? Confidence in Recovery as Foreign Minister Confirms ?Daunting Challenges? The free, fair and peaceful holding of upcoming elections was critical for Liberia?s emergence from its brutal civil war, but even if they succeeded, joint Liberian and international rebuilding efforts were not yet finished, the Secretary-General?s Special Representative in that […]

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United Nations Opens ?Idea Box? for Rio+20 Conference, Invites Civil Society to Contribute Ideas for Spurring Action on Sustainability

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• 2 min. de leitura

  To broaden participation in next year?s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the United Nations has invited representatives from nine key constituencies, known as major groups, to submit ideas on how the world can move towards sustainable development ? a process aimed at promoting economic prosperity and improving the quality of life for […]

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Secretary-General Says Member States Determine List of Non-Self Governing Territories

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• Menos de um minuto

  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: In the course of the press conference which he gave in Auckland, New Zealand, on 7 September, the Secretary-General was asked a number of questions about regional issues, including one on the Indonesian province of Papua and the United Nations Decolonization Committee. […]

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Pledges to Carry on Work of United Nations That Late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld Died Defending

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the General Assembly tribute to the memory of late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, in New York, today, 13 September: Mr. President, before I pay tribute to the late Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, allow me to congratulate Your Excellency on your election […]

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Press Conference by General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  The General Assembly?s incoming President, in his first Headquarters press conference this afternoon, said the sixty-sixth session would focus on the priority theme of mediation. ?Preventive diplomacy is needed today,? said Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser of Qatar, following his opening of the session in the Assembly Hall, where he had underlined the urgency for revitalized […]

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Press Conference on Report of Roll Back Malaria Partnership, ?A Decade of Partnership and Results?

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• 13 de setembro de 2011
• 4 min. de leitura

  Remarkable but fragile gains had been made in the fight against malaria over in last decade, making it critical to close funding gaps, scale up the use of effective interventions, combat drug and insecticide resistance, while supporting research and development to ensure that new ambitious targets would be met, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at […]