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Secretary-General Expresses Growing Concern over Egypt amid Reported Clashes, Sexual Violence, Due Process Failures, Restrictions on Expression

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• 5 de julho de 2013
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  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is following with growing concern the latest developments in the unfolding crisis in Egypt.  While some of those arrested have now been released, others are still being detained.  There are also worrying reports about failure to apply due […]

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Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Deletes Abd al Hamid Sulaiman Muhammed al-Mujil from Its Sanctions List

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• 1 de julho de 2013
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  Decision Taken Following Review of Delisting Request Submitted Through Office of the Ombudsperson On 1 July 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name of the individual below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of a […]

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Secretary-General Expresses Hope, in Message, that June Day Be Inspiring Reminder of Importance of United Nations Work, Solidarity of Colleagues

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• 1 de julho de 2013
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  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for June Day, 29 June, in Westport, Connecticut, United States, as delivered by Patricia O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for the Office of Legal Affairs: I am pleased to send warm greetings to all colleagues participating in June Day 2013.  I express my warmest appreciation to the organizers, especially Ambassador Joseph […]

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Security Council 1988 Committee Amends Three Entries on Its Sanctions List

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• 26 de junho de 2013
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  On 27 June 2013, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council […]

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Security Council Press Statement on Attack against United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei

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• 14 de junho de 2013
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  The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant ( United Kingdom): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism interim headquarters in Kadugli, Sudan, on […]

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Security Council Press Statement on Somalia

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• 13 de junho de 2013
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  The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant ( United Kingdom): On Thursday, 13 June, the Security Council received a briefing from Assistant Secretary-General Tayé-Brook Zerihoun on the situation in the Juba regions of Somalia. Members of the Security Council expressed their concern at the deterioration in […]

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Secretary-General Appoints Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye of Senegal Special Representative in Central African Republic

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• 12 de junho de 2013
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye of Senegal as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office for the Central African Republic (BINUCA), based in Bangui. Lieutenant General Gaye succeeds Margaret Vogt of Nigeria, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her leadership […]

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Secretary-General, in Message to International Student Summit, Calls Energy Gap Inequitable, Unsustainable

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• 11 de junho de 2013
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  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Third International Student Energy Summit in Trondheim, Norway, on 13 June: I am pleased to greet this important forum for sharing ideas, knowledge and innovation, and I commend the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim for hosting it. The leadership of youth is […]

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Secretary-General Encouraged by Progress on Inter-Guinean Dialogue

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• 11 de junho de 2013
• Menos de um minuto

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is encouraged by the progress made by the parties to the inter-Guinean political dialogue.  This is taking place in Conakry with the assistance of the International Facilitator, United Nations Special Representative for West Africa Said Djinnit, and his national […]

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Secretary-General Appoints Mukhisa Kituyi of Kenya to Head United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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• 11 de junho de 2013
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  On 10 May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote to the President of the General Assembly requesting that the Assembly confirm Mukhisa Kituyi of Kenya as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).  The General Assembly confirmed the nomination on 10 June. Mr. Kituyi will replace Supachai Panitchpakdi, […]