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Secretary-General, in Message, Welcomes Focus of Organization of American States on ‘Citizen Security’, Heartened by Regional Efforts to Address Organized Crime

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• 7 de junho de 2011
• Menos de um minuto

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the forty-first General Assembly of the Organization of American States, as delivered by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in San Salvador, 7 June: The Secretary-General welcomes the focus on citizen security of the forty-first General Assembly of the […]

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Security Council Mission to Africa, in Briefing, Stresses Need for Agreement on All Outstanding Issues before Southern Sudan?s Expected Separation

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• 6 de junho de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

  Trip?s Leaders Describe Concerns over Abyei, Humanitarian Situation in Darfur; Somalia?s Institutional Infighting It was critical for the parties in both North and South Sudan to reach accord on all outstanding issues under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement before the South declared independence on 9 July, the Security Council heard today, as the leaders of […]

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Arrests of Long-Sought Fugitives Commended in Security Council, but Challenges to Completing Work in War Crimes Tribunals Dominate Briefings by Officials

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• 6 de junho de 2011
• 42 min. de leitura

  Top officials from the United Nations war crimes Tribunals investigating atrocities committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the Balkan wars of the 1990s today hailed the recent arrests of high-profile fugitives, but warned the Security Council that the work ? and legacies ? of their courts was imperilled by persistent staffing woes, challenges […]

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Press Conference by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations Headquarters

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• 6 de junho de 2011
• 32 min. de leitura

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s press conference held in New York today, 6 June: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to see you this morning, and thanks for your participation.  I have been travelling heavily and wanted to brief you before departing for South America later this […]

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Security Council?s 1518 Committee Approves Deletion of Two Entries From Its List of Individuals

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• 6 de junho de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

  On 2 June 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the deletion (de-listing) of the two entries specified below from the list of individuals established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1483 (2003).  The sanctions measures set out in paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) therefore no longer […]

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Deeply Concerned at Events in Occupied Syrian Golan, Secretary-General Condemns Use of Violence as He Calls for ‘Maximum Restraint’ on All Sides

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• 6 de junho de 2011
• Menos de um minuto

  The following statement was issued on 5 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General has been following with deep concern today’s events in the area of separation on the occupied Syrian Golan, including reports of efforts to cross the Israeli technical fence and an unconfirmed number of civilian casualties from […]

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Press Conference by Médecins Sans Frontières on Stakes for Treatment As General Assembly Holds High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS

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

  Meeting in New York this week to craft a blueprint for the next decade?s global response to HIV/AIDS, Governments must recommit to bringing life-saving treatment to all in need, supporting an ambitious treatment target and injecting $6 billion annually into efforts to close the treatment gap, experts from Médecins Sans Frontières said at a […]

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Condemning Attacks against United Nations Mission in the Sudan, Security Council Demands Withdrawal of Government, Military Elements from Disputed Abyei Area

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• 5 de junho de 2011
• 7 min. de leitura

  Demanding an immediate withdrawal of the Sudanese Government and of all military elements from the contested Abyei area, the Security Council today strongly condemned the Sudanese Government’s military seizure of the town and the resulting displacement of tens of thousands of residents. Through a statement read out by Nelson Messone of Gabon, whose delegation […]

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Secretary-General, ‘Deeply Troubled’ at Escalating Violence in Syria, Calls for Immediate End to Repression by Security, Military Forces

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• 5 de junho de 2011
• Menos de um minuto

  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is alarmed at the escalation of violence in Syria, which has reportedly left at least 70 killed over the past week alone, bringing the total casualties since mid-March to over 1,000 dead, many more injured and thousands arrested.  The […]

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Discussion in Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization Focuses on Goals, Accomplishments of Non-Self-Governing Territories, United Nations System

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

  (Received from a UN Information Officer.) SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, 1 June ? In their second day of discussion, participants in the Caribbean regional seminar on decolonization today pressed the Special Committee on Decolonization charged with monitoring implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to take […]