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Statements and Messages

1 February 2013

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Secretary-General, in Message to ‘Lions Day with the United Nations’, Challenges Volunteer Service Group to Examine How It Can ‘Go Further’

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the thirty-fifth Lions Day with the United Nations, in New York on 1 February:

1 February 2013

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Religious, Cultural Leaders Have Duty to Speak Language of Tolerance, Respect, Secretary-General Says in Message for Interfaith Harmony Week

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Interfaith Harmony Week, in New York on 1 February:

30 January 2013

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Secretary-General, Announces ‘Largest Response Ever to a Humanitarian Pledging Conference’ as Donors Promise More than $1.5 Billion for Syrian People

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the Pledging Conference on Syria, in Kuwait City on 30 January:

30 January 2013

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Funding Constraints Must Not Prevent Delivery of Life-saving Aid to Those in Desperate Need, Secretary-General Tells Pledging Conference on Syria

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to the Pledging Conference on Syria in Kuwait City on 30 January:

29 January 2013

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Secretary-General, in Message to Special Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, Hails Sport’s Uniting Power across Boundaries, Dividing Lines

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the opening ceremony for the 2013 Pyeongchang Special Olympics World Winter Games, in Pyeongchang on 29 January:

28 January 2013

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Healthy Economic Growth in Asia-Pacific ‘Crucial to the World’, Secretary-General Says in Message for Regional Parliamentary Forum

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum held in Vladivostok, 27-31 January:

28 January 2013

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Placing Global Health atop Political Agenda Will Lead to Stronger, More Productive Societies, Secretary-General Tells Rockefeller Foundation Event

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Rockefeller Foundation Global Health Summit in Beijing on 26 January: