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MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT NEEDED TO PURSUE ‘NOBLE GOALS’ OF DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DISARMAMENT COMMISSION

7 April 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT NEEDED TO PURSUE ‘NOBLE GOALS’ OF DISARMAMENT,


NON-PROLIFERATION SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DISARMAMENT COMMISSION


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Disarmament Commission in New York, 7 April:

SG/SM/11496-AFR/1675

SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARKING FOUR YEARS SINCE FIRST SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON DARFUR, STRESSES NEED TO KEEP PRESSURE ON PARTIES TO END HOSTILITIES

4 April 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARKING FOUR YEARS SINCE FIRST SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING


ON DARFUR, STRESSES NEED TO KEEP PRESSURE ON PARTIES TO END HOSTILITIES


Following is the text of the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marking four years since the first Security Council meeting on Darfur:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND ITS OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

3 April 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS

 

OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND ITS OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

 


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

SG/SM/11493

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF CROSSING IN CYPRIOT CAPITAL

3 April 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF CROSSING IN CYPRIOT CAPITAL


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

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LEARN FROM PROBLEMS OF CORRUPTION, COORDINATION, PARTNERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SUMMIT

3 April 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

LEARN FROM PROBLEMS OF CORRUPTION, COORDINATION, PARTNERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN,


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SUMMIT


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Conference on Afghanistan in Bucharest, today, 3 April:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD HEALTH DAY, STRESSES NEED TO PLACE PROTECTION OF MOST VULNERABLE AT HEART OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA

3 April 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Secretary-General, in message for world health day, stresses need to place

 

protection of most vulnerable at heart of global climate change agenda

 


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, observed on 7 April:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CALM, TRANSPARENCY IN ZIMBABWE VOTE COUNT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES CALM, TRANSPARENCY IN ZIMBABWE VOTE COUNT


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