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SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES $7 MILLION GRANT FROM EMERGENCY FUND TO HELP MEET URGENT HUMANITARIAN NEEDS FOLLOWING CHINA’S EARTHQUAKE

16 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES $7 MILLION GRANT FROM EMERGENCY FUND TO HELP


MEET URGENT HUMANITARIAN NEEDS FOLLOWING CHINA’S EARTHQUAKE


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

SG/SM/11576

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REAL PEACE POSSIBLE ‘IF WE WORK COLLECTIVELY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN’, IN MESSAGE IN ADVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY

16 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Secretary-General says real peace possible ‘if we work collectively


to make it happen’, in message in advance of international day


Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message 100 days in advance of the International Day of Peace, to be broadcast on 13 June:

SG/SM/11575

UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION HAS BECOME ‘THE UN’S BEST FRIEND’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERING CONGRATULATIONS ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY

16 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION HAS BECOME ‘THE UN’S BEST FRIEND’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL


OFFERING CONGRATULATIONS ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Foundation, observed 13 June 2008:

SG/SM/11572

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES YOUNG LEADERS TO ‘DREAM BIG’, HELP MAKE WORLD BETTER PLACE, IN REMARKS TO NEW YORK MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE

16 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES YOUNG LEADERS TO ‘DREAM BIG’, HELP MAKE WORLD BETTER PLACE,


IN REMARKS TO NEW YORK MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE

 


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Global Classrooms Model United Nations Conference, in New York, 15 May:

SG/SM/11570

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTRAGED BY BOMBINGS IN JAIPUR, INDIA

14 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTRAGED BY BOMBINGS IN JAIPUR, INDIA

 


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

SG/SM/11569-ENV/DEV/985

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CAN OFFER CONCRETE ACTION, NEW IDEAS ON WIDE RANGE OF WORLD’S FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

14 May 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CAN OFFER CONCRETE ACTION, NEW IDEAS


ON WIDE RANGE OF WORLD’S FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York, 14 May: