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Security Council Adopts Resolution 1920 (2010), Extending by One Year Mandate of United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara

• por Notícias
• 30 de abril de 2010
• 11 min. de leitura

Calling on Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front) to adhere fully to the military agreements reached with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), the Security Council today extended the mandate of that Mission until 30 April 2011. Unanimously adopting resolution […]

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Permanent Forum Calls for Development Model Based on Concepts Underpinned by Indigenous ‘Values, Cultures and Identities’, as It Concludes Session

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

  Recommends Global Processes — Such as Biodiversity Convention Talks — Integrate Into Work Indigenous Knowledge Systems, as It Adopts Ten Texts, Including Report Stressing that prevailing development paradigms had often destroyed the political, economic and spiritual systems of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues closed its ninth session today adopting its draft […]

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?Putting an End to Nuclear Explosions’ Exhibit to Open at United Nations Headquarters, 4 May

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• 30 de abril de 2010
• 1 min. de leitura

In conjunction with the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) taking place at the United Nations from 3 to 28 May, the exhibit ?Putting an End to Nuclear Explosions? will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors? Lobby on Tuesday, 4 May at 6 p.m.  The […]

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‘My Goal — Our Goal — Is to Make the Whole World a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone,’ Secretary-General Tells Conference of States Parties and Signatories

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• 30 de abril de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Second Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia, in New York today, 30 April: Many thanks to Chile for preparing the way for this Conference, and to Mongolia for inviting representatives from each country to talks […]

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Secretary-General, Addressing Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, Points to ‘Undeniable’ Link between Arms Trafficking, Other Illegal Activities

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• 30 de abril de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following is text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirtieth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, delivered in French by Sahle-Work Zewde, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic, in Kinshasa today, 30 April: […]

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Press Conference on Upcoming Review of International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute

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• 30 de abril de 2010
• 5 min. de leitura

  The key goal of the upcoming Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was “to complete negotiations on defining individual responsibility for the crime of aggression”, William Pace, Convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, said today at a Headquarters press conference ahead of the Review slated for […]

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Press Conference by Indigenous Peoples? Forum

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• 30 de abril de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  While indigenous people continued to suffer in the face of massive development projects that stripped their lands of precious traditional resources and displaced their communities en masse, ?we are at the dawn of a new sunrise?, Carlos Mamani, Chairperson the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said today at a Headquarters press conference. ?We can […]

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Security Council Adopts Resolution 1920 (2010), Extending by One Year Mandate of United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara

• por Notícias
• 30 de abril de 2010
• 11 min. de leitura

Calling on Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front) to adhere fully to the military agreements reached with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), the Security Council today extended the mandate of that Mission until 30 April 2011. Unanimously adopting resolution […]

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Press Conference by Indigenous Peoples? Forum

• por Notícias
• 30 de abril de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  While indigenous people continued to suffer in the face of massive development projects that stripped their lands of precious traditional resources and displaced their communities en masse, ?we are at the dawn of a new sunrise?, Carlos Mamani, Chairperson the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said today at a Headquarters press conference. ?We can […]

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New Permanent Representative of Honduras Presents Credentials

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• 29 de abril de 2010
• Menos de um minuto

  (Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service) The new Permanent Representative of Honduras to the United Nations, Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake, today presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Until her appointment, Ms. Flores, who is the daughter of former Honduran President Carlos Roberto Flores, served as First Vice-President of […]