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SG/SM/16347

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the conference: “United against Violence in the Name of Religion: Protecting Religious and Cultural Diversity in Iraq and Syria”, as delivered by Nassir Abdulaziz Al Nasser, United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, in Vienna, today:

SG/SM/16345-AFR/3022

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message, delivered by Miguel Trovoada, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS), to the Extraordinary Meeting of the International Contact Group on Guinea-Bissau, in New York today:

SG/A/1524-BIO/4665-DEV/3151

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lenni Montiel of Venezuela as Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.  He succeeds Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan.  The Secretary-General and the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs are grateful for her commitment and dedicated service to the Organization.