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27 September 2013

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Secretary-General, in Message to Event on Kampala Amendments to Rome Statute, Encourages More States to Ratify Them

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Miguel de Serpa Soares, UN Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, to an event on the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute, in New York on 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General Welcomes Findings of Climate Change Panel Report, Urges Sustained Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General, in Remarks to Friends of Alliance of Civilizations, Calls Body ‘An Investment in Peace and Harmony’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Group of Friends Ministerial Meeting of the Alliance of Civilizations, in New York on 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General Saddened by Death of Tanzanian Peacekeeper for United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General, in Message, Says He Counts on Organization of Islamic Cooperation to Help Address Tumults Facing Arab Countries in Transition

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Annual Coordination Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in New York, 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Nuclear-Weapons Test Ban ‘Fitting Response to Hopes of Those Who Have Suffered Most’, Secretary-General Says at Meeting to Operationalize Treaty

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the eighth Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), in New York, 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General, in Message on Responsibility to Protect, Says Prevention Must Start at Home, with ‘Honest Assessment of Both Risk and Resilience'

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Ministerial Meeting on Enhancing Preventive Strategies for the Responsibility to Protect, as delivered by Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, in New York, 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Rule of Law Should Guide Relations between Global Institutions, as Well as Nations, Secretary-General Tells Non-Aligned Movement

Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting on Cooperation for the Rule of Law at the International Level, in New York on 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General, in Message, Commends Counter-Terrorism Forum’s ‘Impressive Repertoire of Work’ in Bringing Much-Needed Focus to Priority Issues

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), to the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum, in New York, 27 September:

27 September 2013

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Secretary-General Calls New Pacific Regional Data Repository Powerful Message to World that Region Stepping Up to Sustainable Energy for All Challenge

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the signing of the Declaration on Establishing a Pacific Regional Data Repository for Sustainable Energy for All, in New York, 27 September: