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12 December 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

MIGRANTS MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS HUMAN BEINGS WHOSE RIGHTS, LIKE THOSE OF EVERYONE

 

ELSE, MUST BE PROTECTED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

 


Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Migrants Day, observed 18 December:

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12 December 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Secretary-General expresses strong support for goal of verifiable denuclearization


of Korean peninsula, as latest six-party talks end with differences unresolved


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

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12 December 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/12000
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Secretary-General strongly condemns ‘heinous’ bomb attack in kirkuk


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

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12 December 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN GENEVA, SAYS WORK TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION’S


PRINCIPLES MUST CONTINUE UNTIL THEY ARE ‘FOUNDATION OF LIFE’ FOR ALL PEOPLE


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, 12 December:

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Doha, Qatar, in the evening of Thursday, 27 November, to attend the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus.

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10 December 2008
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HR/4974
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION’S TOWERING VISION WILL ONLY BE HONOURED WHEN PRINCIPLES


APPLIED ‘EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYONE’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE