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PAL/2134-PI/1948

Panels Focus on New Versus Traditional Tools, Role of Women as Eighteenth International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East Continues

The eighteenth International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East continued this afternoon, holding two panel discussions on the topics “New media vs. traditional media: allies or adversaries in furthering the peace process” and “The role of Israeli and Palestinian women in achieving peace and security in the Middle East”.
SG/T/2744

Activities of Secretary-General in Switzerland, 18-19 July

The Secretary-General arrived in Geneva on Sunday, 18 July. That afternoon, he visited the League of Nations Museum, at the Palais des Nations. The following day, he held a breakfast meeting with the heads of the United Nations organizations based in Geneva.

SG/T/2743

Activities of Secretary-General in Spain, 16-18 July

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Madrid, Spain, on Friday, 16 July, in the morning, to attend the first meeting of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group, which he had recently launched.

SC/9989

Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Adds Names of Four Individuals to Consolidated List

On 19 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the four entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.