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21 September 2012

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Secretary-General Appoints Mark Bowden of United Kingdom Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mark Bowden of the United Kingdom as his Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. Mr. Bowden will also serve as Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator.

20 September 2012

Press Conference to Launch ‘MDG Gap Task Force Report 2012’

Amid warnings by a new United Nations report that significant development gains worldwide risked backsliding due to the slowdown in providing aid, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today for a stronger global partnership to advance progress towards poverty eradication, sustainable growth and other development targets that world leaders had pledged to achieve by 2015.

19 September 2012

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Improving Safety at Sea as Important as Ever 100 Years after ‘Titanic’ Sinking, Says Secretary-General in Message for World Maritime Day

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Maritime Day, to be observed on 27 September:

19 September 2012

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Press Conference by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations Headquarters

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York on 19 September:

19 September 2012

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Homi Kharas of Pakistan Appointed to Lead Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda

Homi Kharas, a national of Pakistan was appointed today as Lead Author and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on the global development agenda beyond 2015, which is co-chaired by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom.

18 September 2012

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Moderate Voices Must Speak up for Others’ Beliefs, Says Secretary-General at Opening Meeting of General Assembly’s Sixty-Seventh Session

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly in New York today, 18 September:

18 September 2012

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Secretary-General, at New York Ecumenical Service, Stresses Special Role of Religious Leaders as Standard-Bearers of Reason, Respect

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Church of the Holy Family in New York on 17 September:

17 September 2012

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Hailing Sixty-sixth Session’s ‘Legacy of Achievement’, Secretary-General Says Promoting Culture of Peace Must Remain General Assembly Priority

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly in New York, today, 17 September:

17 September 2012

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Partnerships Critical to Lowering Number of Disaster-Related Deaths, Secretary-General Tells Regional Platform

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, in New York, 17 September:

17 September 2012

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Secretary-General, in Message to International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference, Welcomes Disaster-Hit Region’s Hosting of Proposed Meeting

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the sixty-sixth session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in Vienna, 17 September: