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Only Negotiated, Two-State Solution Will Fully Restore Jerusalem to Rightful Place as Symbol of Sanctity, Fraternity, Peace for Entire World, Says Secretary-General

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• 27 de fevereiro de 2012
• 3 min. de leitura

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Jerusalem International Forum, delivered by Robert Serry, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, and the Secretary-General?s Envoy to the Quartet, in Doha, 26 February: I am pleased to send […]

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Secretary-General Urges Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development to Ensure that Revenues Supplement, Not Replace, Traditional Aid

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• 27 de fevereiro de 2012
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  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the tenth plenary meeting of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development, in Madrid on 27 February: I am pleased to send greetings to the tenth plenary meeting of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development. The global recession has constrained Government budgets in many […]

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Press Conference on Youth Unemployment

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• 27 de fevereiro de 2012
• 3 min. de leitura

  Representatives from government, the business sector and civil society were meeting at United Nations headquarters to examine how each sector could collaborate in partnership to address youth unemployment, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference today.  The partnership event, being held under the theme “partnerships for more and better jobs for young people”, […]

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Commission on Status of Women to Focus on Rural Women, Their Contributions, Challenges during Fifty-sixth Session at Headquarters, 27 February?9 March

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• 26 de fevereiro de 2012
• 3 min. de leitura

  The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will open on 27 February at United Nations Headquarters, focused on the theme of empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, sustainable development and current challenges.  The Commission will agree on urgent actions needed to make a real […]

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In Region That Has Suffered Much Conflict, Zambia Stands Tall as Landlocked Island of Peace, Secretary-General Tells National Assembly, Inspired by Its Example

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• 26 de fevereiro de 2012
• 9 min. de leitura

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the National Assembly of Zambia, today, 24 February, in Lusaka: I am proud to be a guest in your beautiful country.  I am profoundly honoured to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to address this august Parliament.  And I am deeply grateful for this special session. I have […]

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Secretary-General, in Message, Urges Syrian Authorities to Cease All Violence, International Community to Act Coherently to Facilitate Peaceful Resolution

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• 26 de fevereiro de 2012
• 5 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the International Conference of the Friends of the Syrian People, today, 24 February, in Tunis: I thank the government of Tunisia for hosting this timely conference.  The winds of change sweeping the region started in Tunisia, […]

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Press Conference by Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Myanmar

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• 26 de fevereiro de 2012
• 2 min. de leitura

  Dramatic positive changes in Myanmar had demonstrated “an unprecedented level of initiative”, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on that country, Vijay Nambiar, told reporters at a Headquarters press conference today after returning from a five-day visit. One year after the new Government had been formed, Mr. Nambiar said, political and economic reforms, the release of […]

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General Assembly Adopts Resolution to Strengthen Human Rights Treaty Body System, by Vote of 85-0-66; Elects Three Judges to United Nations Appeals Tribunal

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• 23 de fevereiro de 2012
• 5 min. de leitura

  The General Assembly today adopted a resolution on reform of the human rights treaty body system and elected three judges from a pool of six candidates to the United Nations Appeals Tribunal for terms of seven years, beginning 1 July. The Assembly re-elected Judge Jean Courtial ( France) and chose two new Judges, Rosalyn M. Chapman […]

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Kofi Annan Appointed Joint Special Envoy of United Nations, League of Arab States on Syrian Crisis

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• 23 de fevereiro de 2012
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  The following joint statement was issued today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Nabil Elaraby: In accordance with the General Assembly resolution A/RES/66/253 of 16 February and following close consultations between Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Nabil Elaraby, the two today […]

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Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Amends Five Entries on Its Sanctions List

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• 23 de fevereiro de 2012
• 2 min. de leitura

  On 23 February 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council […]