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2012 Rio Conference Not Earth Summit Commemorative Event; Rather, Aims to Renew Political Commitment to Sustainable Development, Preparatory Committee Told

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 35 min. de leitura

  Conference Head Voices Hope Negotiations Do Not Seek ?Lowest Common Denominator?; Secretary-General?s Report Sets Out Themes: Green Economy, Institutional Framework Against the still elusive implementation of the 1992 Earth Summit?s groundbreaking ?Agenda 21?, delegations began a three-day session in New York today ? the first in a series of preparatory meetings for the 20-year […]

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Public Information Department, Simon Wiesenthal Tolerance Centre to Screen Film on Lost Holocaust Stories Uncovered in Arab Lands, 24 May

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  The United Nations Department of Public Information, in partnership with the New York-based Simon Wiesenthal Tolerance Centre, will organize a screening of the documentary film Among the Righteous:  Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands at the New York Tolerance Centre from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, 24 May. Based on the literary work of the […]

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Secretary-General, in Message to Open Pacific Regional Seminar, Calls for Creative Efforts to Complete Decolonization Process

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 10 min. de leitura

NOUMÉA, New Caledonia, 18 May 2010 ? In a message to open the Pacific Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all involved to undertake ?fresh and creative efforts? towards full implementation of decolonization. The three-day Seminar in Nouméa is only […]

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Self-Sufficiency Demands Greater Efforts, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Conference on Africa?s Realities, Challenges

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 6 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro?s remarks to the international conference ?Africa, an Opportunity for the World:  Realities and Challenges?, in Yaoundé, today, 18 May: I would like to express my deep appreciation for your warm welcome.  We have been made to feel very much at home here in Cameroon. On behalf of […]

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Press Conference to Launch ‘Economic Report on Africa 2010’

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  As the rest of the world begins to shake off the worst effects of the global economic and financial crisis, a United Nations report launched today argues that Africa should position itself for long-term development by pursuing an employment-intensive strategy prioritizing sustained growth and increased job-creation. “The recession should serve as a wake-up call […]

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Press Conference by Commander of European Union Anti-Piracy Naval Force off Somalia Coast ? Operation Atalanta

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

  While pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden had fallen from 20 per month in the summer of 2009, to between 4 and 5 today, the tenacity of pirates and level of their violence against mariners had changed over the years, said Rear Admiral Peter Hudson, Operations Commander of the European Union Naval Force […]

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Press Conference on African Perspectives on Security Sector Reform

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• 18 de maio de 2010
• 5 min. de leitura

  A two-day meeting on the African perspectives on security sector reform ended in New York today with agreement that, if such processes were to be sustainable and viable, they must be built on the basis of national ownership, Adedeji Ebo, Chief of the Security Sector Reform Unit of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping […]

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Secretary-General Deeply Alarmed by Deadly Attack on Peacekeepers in Darfur

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• 9 de maio de 2010
• Menos de um minuto

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed to learn of today?s attack by unidentified armed men against a UNAMID [African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur] military convoy, comprised of Egyptian peacekeepers, near Katila Village in South Darfur.  The attack resulted in the […]

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Press Conference by Emergency Relief Coordinator

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• 8 de maio de 2010
• 8 min. de leitura

  The United Nations has a decent chance to avert a catastrophe in drought-prone West Africa by taking timely action and scaling up its capacity to deal with the situation, but the effort would crucially depend on the needed resources being made available by the donor community, John Holmes, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and […]

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Press Conference by Bolivia?s President on People?s Congress

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• 8 de maio de 2010
• 7 min. de leitura

Convinced that recent Government-led climate negotiations had ignored the perspective of the people most affected by global warming, Bolivian President Evo Morales told reporters today that the United Nations should adopt the outcomes of a ?people?s summit? he had convened last month in the Andean city of Cochabamba as a more inclusive, people-centred framework for […]