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It Is ?Moral Imperative? for Business to Play Its Part in Reaching Millennium Development Goals, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Global Compact Summit

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• 24 de junho de 2010
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  Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro?s opening remarks to the ministerial session of the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, yesterday, in New York:  When the United Nations first embarked on the Global Compact 10 years ago, it was designed to be a small, experimental initiative to advance universal values […]

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At New York Event, Secretary-General Praises Korea Network as Important Vehicle for Spreading Global Corporate Principles

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• 24 de junho de 2010
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  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at ?Korea Night? in New York, 23 June: I am delighted to welcome you to New York. And I am very pleased to see so many Korean businesspeople here for this event. This turnout represents a big change from just a few years ago.  When I became Secretary-General, […]

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Opening Press Conference for Global Compact Leaders Summit

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• 24 de junho de 2010
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  As the world continued to reel from the financial crisis, and climate change, poverty and resource constraints tested capabilities, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged more than 1,200 top business executives gathered in New York City for the 2010 Global Compact Leaders Summit to usher in a new era of sustainability in which corporations played a central […]

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Press Conference on Governmental Role in Engaging Private Sector for Attainment of Millennium Development Goals

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• 24 de junho de 2010
• 6 min. de leitura

  The two-day United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010 would combine a distinguished group of public servants familiar with how to ?speak business? and a distinguished group of business leaders accustomed to speaking up for the public good, Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning, said at Headquarters today. Set to […]

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Press Conference by Secretary-General to Launch Millennium Development Goals Report 2010

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• 24 de junho de 2010
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  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an intensified focus on priorities, political will and partnership to achieve the Millennium Development Goals this morning, as he launched a report that showed a mix of progress and obstacles in reaching the anti-poverty targets. “This report shows that economic uncertainty cannot be an excuse to slow […]

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Existing Tools Aimed at Illicit Small Arms Trade Must Better Connect Assistance Needs with Resources, Says Speakers at Biennial Meeting

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• 15 de junho de 2010
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  International Cooperation in Implementing 2001 Action Programme Focus; Delegates Told ? ?Bottom Line Is? Developing Countries Need Assistance Fine-tuning existing tools to stem the flow of the nefarious illicit arms trade topped a volley of suggestions that were the focus of debate today as the Fourth Biennial Meeting of States on combating the illicit […]

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States Parties to Convention on Law of the Sea Hear Briefing by International Tribunal President, on Draft Budget Proposals, Other Financial Matters

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• 15 de junho de 2010
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  Germany Elected Vice-President; Finland, Australia Named to Credentials Committee Continuing its annual session today, the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea heard a briefing by the President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, on that body?s draft budget proposals for 2011-2012, financial reports […]

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Resuming 2010 Session, Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Requests for Hearings by Non-Self-Governing Territories, Takes Up Question of Gibraltar

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• 15 de junho de 2010
• 8 min. de leitura

  Resuming its 2010 session this morning, the Special Committee on Decolonization approved requests for hearings from several Non-Self-Governing Territories in the coming days, with a petitioner from Gibraltar asserting that 50 years after the General Assembly had passed its historic resolution 1514 (XV), which called for the immediate transfer of power from all colonized Territories […]

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Security Council Press Statement on Iraq/Kuwait

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• 15 de junho de 2010
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  The following Security Council press statement on Iraq/Kuwait was read out today by Council President Claude Heller ( Mexico): The members of the Security Council received a briefing from Ambassador Gennady Tarasov, the Secretary-General?s High-Level Coordinator, on the twenty-ninth report of the Secretary-General, in accordance with paragraph 14 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999). […]

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Radio Launch Shows Public Ability of Broadcasting to Heal Wounds, Build Peace, Secretary-General Says at Launch of Sierra Leone Corporation

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• 15 de junho de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the inauguration of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation, in Freetown, today, 15 June: It is a profound honour to join you as we welcome the birth of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) ? a milestone on this country?s march to progress.  SLBC, your new public […]