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Guinea-Bissau Needs Support of Partners to Ensure It Stays on Right Path, Secretary-General Stresses at International Contact Group Meeting

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:

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Secretary-General Appoints Lenni Montiel of Venezuela Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development

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.

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Activities of Secretary-General in Myanmar, 11-13 November

United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, from New York, via Incheon, late in the evening of 11 November, to attend the twenty-fifth annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.

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Secretary-General Urges Preparatory Committee to ‘Pave’ Way to Fruitful World Disaster Risk Reduction Conference: World Needs Tools, Guidance

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Second Session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Geneva, 17 November: