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5 September 2012

SG/SM/14492

Secretary-General Concerned at Harsh Sentencing of 20 Bahraini Political Activists

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

5 September 2012

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Commending World Bank’s Support of Tajikistan in Tackling Energy Challenges, Secretary-General Encourages Water Management Agreement in Central Asia

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

5 September 2012

SG/SM/14490-GA/11271

Responsibility to Protect Faces Urgent Test ‘Here and Now’, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly, Stressing Immense Human Cost of Failure in Syria

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s informal interactive dialogue on “The Responsibility to Protect: Timely and Decisive Response”, in New York on 5 September:

5 September 2012

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Secretary-General, at Exhibit Opening, Says Sculptures by Wu Weishan Embody ‘Not Just the Soul of a Nation, but of All Humanity’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the opening of an exhibit of artist Wu Weishan, in New York, 4 September:

4 September 2012

SG/SM/14488-GA/11269

Conflict in Syria Takes Brutal Turn, Engulfing Region, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly, Urging Solid, Unifying Support for New Envoy’s Mission

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on Syria to the General Assembly, in New York, 4 September:

4 September 2012

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Secretary-General, in Message, Says Democracies Not Born Overnight, but Once Painstaking Work Has Begun, There Can Be No Going Back

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Democracy, observed on 15 September:

4 September 2012

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Illiteracy, Says Secretary-General in Message, Hobbles Efforts to Achieve Millennium Development Goals, Build Inclusive Knowledge Societies

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Literacy Day, observed on 8 September:

4 September 2012

SG/SM/14485

Secretary-General, in Message to Auschwitz Committee, Says Remembering Holocaust, However Painful, Essential to Overcoming Prejudice, Hatred, Human Rights Abuses

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the General Assembly of the International Auschwitz Committee, held in Oswieçim, Poland, 5-8 September:

31 August 2012

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Secretary-General Regrets Lack of Agreement on All Outstanding Issues between Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency

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

31 August 2012

SG/SM/14483

Every Country Needs to ‘Put Its Best Face Forward’ for Global Prosperity Secretary-General Says at Tehran School of International Relations

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the School of International Relations in Tehran on 30 August: