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Struggle against Organized Crime, Corruption, Drug Trafficking Connected; Too Big for Countries to Confront on Their Own, Third Committee Told

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• 6 de outubro de 2010
• 1 horas de leitura

  Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime Addresses Committee; Says Office Deals with ?Crucial? Global Challenges, Needs Sustainable Funding The struggle against organized crime, corruption and trafficking in illicit drugs and human beings is too big for any one country to tackle alone, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office […]

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As Second Committee Concludes Its General Debate, Delegates Stress Need for New Systems to Relieve Debt, Prevent ?Reckless? Speculative Financial Practices

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• 6 de outubro de 2010
• 45 min. de leitura

  Greater Clout Urged for Developing World in Global Economic Structures as Speakers Call for More Institutional Democracy, Equity As developing countries struggled to gain economic traction, there was an increasingly urgent need to set up systems to relieve their external debt, bolster their clout in international financial institutions and prevent a recurrence of the […]

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Secretary-General, in Remarks to Global Vaccines Alliance, Says Increased Funding Can Build World of ‘Healthy Children, Productive Adults, Stable Societies’

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• 6 de outubro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to mark the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation’s (GAVI) call for action and resources, in New York, 5 October: I am very pleased to be with you this evening. Earlier today, I chaired the Third Global Fund Replenishment Conference. Many of you were there. Programmes supported by […]

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

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• 6 de outubro de 2010
• 23 min. de leitura

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s press conference held in New York today, 6 October: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.  It?s a great pleasure to see you again.  I think we are meeting quite often these days. I hope you have gotten some downtime after such very hectic weeks. With the MDG [Millennium […]

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

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• 6 de outubro de 2010
• 23 min. de leitura

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s press conference held in New York today, 6 October: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.  It?s a great pleasure to see you again.  I think we are meeting quite often these days. I hope you have gotten some downtime after such very hectic weeks. With the MDG [Millennium […]

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Press Conference on Replenishing Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

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• 5 de outubro de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

  Pledges from a meeting to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria would allow millions more lives to be saved in the next three years, but additional funds could do even more, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this afternoon at a headquarters press conference. ?Today we raised more than 11.5 […]

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Press Conference by Security Council President on Work Programme for October

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• 5 de outubro de 2010
• 5 min. de leitura

  The Security Council’s programme of work for October would include a mission to Uganda and Sudan, as well as two public debates — the first, at the ministerial level, on women and peace and security to mark the tenth anniversary of the first Council resolution on that subject, and the second on the Middle […]

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Stalled Progress over Non-Self-Governing Territories Sparks Frustration in Fourth Committee, as Petitioners Seek to Galvanize Support for Decolonization Effort

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• 5 de outubro de 2010
• 20 min. de leitura

Speakers from Western Sahara, New Caledonia, Turks and Caicos, Guam, United States Virgin Islands Rebuke Delays, Undue Suffering, Political Exigencies Questions of five Non-Self-Governing Territories were still mired in inaction, with few taking seriously enough the need to preserve a people?s voice and self-determination in a world where few had either, the Fourth Committee heard […]

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Legal Committee Is Told Overall Convention against Terrorism Must Meet International Law, Humanitarian Concerns

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• 5 de outubro de 2010
• 49 min. de leitura

  As the Sixth Committee (Legal) today took up the question of measures to eliminate international terrorism, delegates both called for the conclusion of the draft comprehensive convention while at the same time expressing concern that the finalization of the draft convention not be at the expense of international law, humanitarian law and the core […]

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Residual Effects of Global Crises ? Financial, Food, Fuel ? Impeding Progress towards Achieving Millennium Development Goals, Third Committee Told

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• 5 de outubro de 2010
• 39 min. de leitura

  Hears from Some 30 Speakers on Second Day of Social Development Debate; Youth as Policymakers, Implications of Ageing Populations among Other Issues The residual impact of the global economic and financial crisis, fuel crisis and food crisis was high on the minds of speakers in the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, with […]