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Backing Plan to Eliminate New HIV Infections among Children and Keep Their Mothers Alive Means ?We Treasure All Life Equally?, Says Secretary-General at Launch

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

Following is a text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the launch of the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children and Keeping Their Mothers Alive, in New York today, 9 June: Thank you all for coming here today.  I especially thank UNAIDS [Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)] Executive […]

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No ?Quick Fix? to Libya Crisis, Says Secretary-General in Message, Declaring Political Solution Remains Top Priority, for Which Efforts Have Intensified

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• 9 de junho de 2011
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  Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the third meeting of the Contact Group on Libya, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Abu Dhabi, 9 June: I thank the Governments of Italy and the United Arab Emirates for organizing and co-chairing this third meeting of the Contact […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in Italy, 1-3 June

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• 9 de junho de 2011
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  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Rome from New York around noon on Wednesday, 1 June. He met there with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.  The topics discussed included Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, the Middle East, North Africa and nuclear safety. He […]

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As Women, Girls Bear Disproportionate Burden of HIV/AIDS Epidemic, No Gains Will Be Made Without Gender Equality, Ending Violence against Women, Panel Told

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• 9 de junho de 2011
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  Women and girls bore a disproportionate burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and if Governments were serious about halting the disease in the next decade, they must throw their political weight squarely behind that issue by urgently expanding sexual and reproductive health services, legislating gender equality, and understanding that no gains would be made without […]

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Security Council Authorizes Expert Panel Helping to Monitor Sanctions on Iran to Continue Work Until June 2012, by Vote of 14 in Favour with 1 Abstention

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• 9 de junho de 2011
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  Reaffirming Value of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?s Balanced Implementation, Lebanon Says Vote Today Reflects Position on Draft that Established Panel in 2010 Urging all States to cooperate fully with the sanctions imposed on Iran over concern about the nature of its nuclear activities, the Security Council today extended for one year the mandate of the […]

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Towards Zero New Infections Means Taking HIV/AIDS ‘Out of the Shadows’, Panel Hears as It Grapples with Ways to Defeat Epidemic Far Outpacing Preventive Measures

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• 8 de junho de 2011
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  The tragic 30-year arc of the AIDS virus, which had left in its wake some 30 million people dead, nearly as many struggling to live with the disease and vast numbers of orphans, had likewise left the international community scrambling to answer a host of complex questions, such as how to accelerate targeted prevention interventions, […]

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Real Story of AIDS Is ‘On the Streets’, Where Shared Response Should Champion Robust National Health Systems, Broader Social Development, Panel Told

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• 8 de junho de 2011
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  Ten years after the world community had come together to forge the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, participants in the first of five panels scheduled during this week’s three-day United Nations high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS called for a new paradigm in AIDS response that focused not only on the disease, but championed broader social […]

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Secretary-General, at Side Event of High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, Urges National Leaders to Design Strategies for Success in Ending Epidemic

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• 8 de junho de 2011
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS side event with Heads of State and Government on AIDS, health and development, in New York on 8 June: I am encouraged to see so many Heads of State and Government engaged in our global campaign against AIDS.  I […]

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Secretary-General to Deliver Opening Address at Third Annual Global Model United Nations Conference, to be held in Republic of Korea, 10-14 August

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• 8 de junho de 2011
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  Some 600 Student Delegates Expected to Discuss Issues of Sustainability The United Nations Department of Public Information will organize the third annual Global Model UN Conference in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 10 to 14 August under the theme “Sustainable Development: Advancing Human Progress in Harmony with Nature”.  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver the […]

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Secretary-General, in Meeting with Group of Friends on Myanmar, Reiterates United Nations Desire to Help Address Country’s Long-Standing Problems

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• 8 de junho de 2011
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  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: This morning, the Secretary-General convened the first meeting of his Group of Friends on Myanmar since the establishment of a new Government in Naypyitaw.  The Group heard from his Special Adviser, following his recent visit to that country. Given Myanmar’s […]