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World Can No Longer Wait for Perfect Global Environment before Taking Advantage of Existing Opportunities, Says Secretary-General to Test-Ban Treaty Meeting

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• 23 de setembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the Fifth Biennial Ministerial Meeting in Support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, in New York, today, 23 September: Last month, I visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki to honour the victims of the nuclear firestorm that devastated so many lives 65 years ago.  I used that […]

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Secretary-General Says ?Great Goals within Reach? ? Fighting Poverty, Preserving Climate, Eliminating Nuclear Weapons ? if World Pulls Together through UN

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

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s statement introducing his report to the General Assembly ?Pulling Together in Testing Times:  Securing a Better Future for All?, in New York, 23 September: Welcome to New York in this beautiful autumn season. And welcome to the opening of this sixty-fifth general debate. Mr. President, congratulations. I look […]

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Press Conference by Executive Director of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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• 23 de setembro de 2010
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  The newly appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, told correspondents today that Governments are converging on the need to mandate a full set of ways and means to “launch a new wave of global climate action” ahead of a major conference to be held in Cancun, […]

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

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• 23 de setembro de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

  The Millennium Development Goals on health would be reached by 2015 if the international community sustained and expanded its level of dedicated resources and effort, said the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a Headquarters press conference today. ?Everyone understands that health is key to development, and everyone […]

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Secretary-General, at Private Sector Forum, Challenges Participants to Bring Solutions, Innovations to Scale to Reach Millennium Development Goals

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• 22 de setembro de 2010
• 7 min. de leitura

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen were among hundreds of high officials from corporations, Governments and world organizations at the United Nations Leadership Forum who today stressed the critical role of the private sector in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. […]

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When Spotlights Are Switched Off, Says Secretary-General as Millennium Development Goals Summit Closes, World Attention Quickly Moves on; ‘We Cannot Let that Happen’

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• 22 de setembro de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, in New York, today, 22 September:  Congratulations. This summit has laid a solid foundation for the progress we need in our quest to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by the internationally agreed deadline […]

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Global Strategy launched by United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit Draws More than $40 Billion to Save Lives of 16 Million Women and Children

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• 22 de setembro de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

Crowning the international summit on the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Heads of State and Government, along with the private sector, foundations, international organizations, civil society and research organizations, kicked off a concerted worldwide effort to save the lives of more than 16 million women and children.  At a special United […]

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Secretary-General Hails ‘Virtuous Cycle’ as Fight against Malaria Leads to Sharp Decline in Deaths from All Causes

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• 22 de setembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by his Special Envoy on Malaria, Ray Chambers, to the “Bridging the Malaria Gap: Saving Children — Supporting Women” event of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, in New York today, 22 September: We are here to celebrate our success in the fight against malaria, and to […]

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Press Conference on Biodiversity by Minister for Environment of Brazil

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• 22 de setembro de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

  The conservation and sustainable use of biological resources was not only crucial in ensuring that local and indigenous communities continued to reap their benefits, but also in creating opportunities for sustainable development and poverty eradication, Izabella Teixeira, Minister for Environment of Brazil, said at a Headquarters press conference today. Speaking in her capacity as […]

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Press Conference by United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity

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• 22 de setembro de 2010
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  The actor Edward Norton, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity, joined two leading authorities in the field of biodiversity at a Headquarters press conference today to warn of the dangers faced by the planet if States failed to confront the loss of biodiversity, less than a month before an international conference on the issue […]