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Secretary-General, at Caribbean Decolonization Seminar Opening, Says Constructive Engagement, Sustained Efforts Essential to Fully Eradicate Colonialism

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Josiane Ambiehl, Chief of the Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, for the opening session of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism:  the United Nations at 70 — taking stock of the decolonization agenda, in Managua today:

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Secretary-General Commends New World Maritime University Campus on Potential to Strengthen Contribution to Society’s Welfare, Wise Ocean Management

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Assistant Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at the Inauguration of the new campus at the World Maritime University, in Malmö, Sweden, today:

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Secretary-General, in Message, Pledges Continued Support to Economic Community of West African States in Advancing Peace, Development, Human Rights

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mohamed ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), to the Forty-Seventh Ordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Accra today: