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General Assembly Adopts Consensus Text on ?Global Health and Foreign Policy?, Acknowledging Need to Make World Health-Care System More Coherent, Effective

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• 9 de dezembro de 2010
• 30 min. de leitura

Meeting Also Hears Introduction of Resolution on Follow-up To Commemoration of Anniversary of Abolition of Transatlantic Slave Trade Calling for more attention to health as an important policy issue on the international agenda, especially in meeting the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, General Assembly delegates today recognized that challenges in global health demanded persistent attention, […]

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Burundi?s Transformation to Stability Still Fragile, Reversible, despite Progress, Secretary-General?s Executive Representative Tells Security Council

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• 9 de dezembro de 2010
• 14 min. de leitura

  ?New Chapter? Takes Centre Stage after Electoral Cycle, Says Chair of Peacebuilding Commission?s Country-specific Configuration Recommending a continuing but smaller United Nations presence in Burundi to the Security Council this morning, the Secretary-General?s Executive Representative said the country?s transformation to stability and democracy was progressing but remained fragile and reversible. ?It is imperative, at […]

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United Nations, Republic of Korea Sign Agreement to Establish New Research, Training Office for Sustainable Development

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• 9 de dezembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  NEW YORK, 9 December (DESA) ? The United Nations has signed an agreement with the Republic of Korea to establish a new research and training facility on sustainable development. The United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) is a joint effort by the United Nations, the Korean Ministry of Environment, the City of Incheon […]

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

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• 9 de dezembro de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

  The following statement by the Chairman of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict was issued in New York, 9 December: At the twenty-seventh meeting of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, held on 9 November 2010, the Working Group agreed, in connection with the consideration of […]

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Saudi Arabia Set to Host Workshop on Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in Riyadh, 11-12 December

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• 9 de dezembro de 2010
• 1 min. de leitura

Saudi Arabia will host a ?Workshop on Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) concerning preventing terrorists from gaining access to weapons of mass destruction? in Riyadh on 11-12 December. The Kingdom announced its decision at the Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington, D.C., on 12-13 April to organize this Gulf Cooperation Council workshop in cooperation with the competent authorities […]

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General Assembly Notes New Strategic Relationship between Russian Federation, United States, Their Endeavour to Reduce Role, Importance Of Nuclear Weapons

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• 8 de dezembro de 2010
• 2 horas de leitura

Adopts 58 Texts on Broad Spectrum of Concerns, on First Committee?s Recommendation, from Reviving Disarmament Machinery to De-Alerting Nuclear Weapons The General Assembly today noted with satisfaction the establishment of a new strategic relationship between the Russian Federation and the United States and the desire of the two countries to bring their respective nuclear postures into […]

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Special Representative in Central African Republic, Briefing Security Council, Holds out Good Prospects for Successful January Elections

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• 8 de dezembro de 2010
• 9 min. de leitura

  Chair of Country-Specific Configuration Highlights Security, Governance, Rule of Law as Priorities for Peacebuilding Commission Prospects were good for the success of elections planned for 23 January in the Central African Republic despite many challenges to peace consolidation, Sahle-Work Zewde, the Secretary-General?s Special Representative in the country, told the Security Council today. ?These elections constitute […]

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Security Council Press Statement on Côte d?Ivoire

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• 8 de dezembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

The following Security Council press statement was read out today by Council President Brooke Anderson ( United States): The members of the Security Council reiterate their support for the constructive role of the Secretary-General in Côte d?Ivoire and stress the important role that the United Nations Operation in Côte d?Ivoire (UNOCI) under the leadership of […]

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Time for Global Action to Protect Forests Is Now, Secretary-General Tells ‘Avoided Deforestation Partners’ Event at Cancun Climate Change Conference

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• 8 de dezembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Sixteenth Conference of Parties Avoided Deforestation Partners Event, in Cancun, today, 8 December: I am pleased to see so many partners working in common cause to protect the world’s tropical forests. We are here in […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in Kazakhstan, 29 November – 2 December

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• 8 de dezembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Astana, Kazakhstan, late on Monday, 29 November. The following morning, the Secretary-General addressed an event on Women, Peace and Security in Central Asia.  He told participants that he was especially impressed by the idea of creating a “Women’s Peace Corps” for the region — a comprehensive roster […]