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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Accra, Ghana, late in the evening of Saturday, 19 April, at the beginning of a visit to West Africa that would also take him to Liberia, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire.

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1 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

World Press Freedom Day

Observance


spare no effort in bringing attackers of journalists to book, Secretary-General


says in message at commemoration of world press freedom day


General Assembly President, Others Pay Tribute to Journalists Killed on Duty

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1 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

WOMEN BEARING BRUNT OF DEVELOPMENT EMERGENCY, NEW GLOBAL CHALLENGES, WARNS


DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO FOREIGN POLICY GROUP


Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s keynote address to the Women’s Foreign Policy Group in New York, today, 1 May:

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30 April 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11543
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT ON non-PERMANENT SECURITY COUNCIL SEATS


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

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30 April 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11542
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ALL SOCIETIES

 

TO ‘SPARE NO EFFORT’ TO BRING TO JUSTICE PERPETRATORS OF ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS

 


Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May: