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2 March 2010

DSG/SM/491-GA/10919-WOM/1779

Empowerment of Women Not Just Goal in Itself, but Key to All Global Development Goals, says Deputy Secretary-General at General Assembly Commemoration

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the General Assembly meeting commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform of Action, in New York, 2 March:

1 March 2010

DSG/SM/489-WOM/1776

Deputy Secretary-General, in Address to Commission on Status of Women, Cites Endemic Sexual Violence, Gaps between Equality Legislation, Implementation

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the opening of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, today, 1 March:

19 February 2010

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Stretch Out, Grab Target of Ending Extreme Poverty, Deputy Secretary-General Urges Regional Meeting on Preparations for 2010 Millennium Development Goals Summit

Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose-Migiro’s remarks on the global preparations for the 2010 MDG Summit during the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Mexico City on 17 February:

19 February 2010

DSG/SM/488-ENV/DEV/1112-REC/233

Deputy Secretary-General, Discussing Climate Change at Regional Meeting, Calls for Stronger Ambition in Building on Copenhagen Outcome

Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks on climate change, “From Copenhagen to Mexico”, to the meeting of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Mexico City on 17 February:

19 February 2010

DSG/SM/486-REC/231

Deputy Secretary-General, Addressing Regional Coordinating Mechanism, Urges Rapid Action to Help Haiti Make Most of International Focus on Its Needs

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s opening address to the Regional Coordination Mechanism meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Mexico City on 17 February:

1 February 2010

DSG/SM/485-SEA/1925

Deputy Secretary-General Says High Seas Beyond National Jurisdiction Badly in Need of Protection, Urges Working Group to Find Ecosystem Based Approach to Governance

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s statement to the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction in New York, 1 February:

18 January 2010

DSG/SM/483-IK/617

Deputy Secretary-General, Reviewing Lessons Learned from Compact with Iraq, Stresses Its Continuing Need for International Support on Way Ahead

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks on lessons learned from the International Compact with Iraq and the way forward in New York, today, 18 January:

1 December 2009

DSG/SM/482-DEV/2779

Deputy Secretary-General Says South-South Cooperation Grand Partnership That Has Encouraged Countries to Work for ‘the Common Good’

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the South-South Cooperation Conference in Nairobi, 1 December:

16 November 2009

DSG/SM/481-DEV/2774

Deputy Secretary-General to New Resident Coordinators, United Nations Development Programme Resident Representatives: ‘You Are Face of UN, to People We Serve’

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the induction of United Nations Resident Coordinators/United Nations Development Programme Resident Representatives, in New York today, 16 November:

13 November 2009

DSG/SM/480-AFR/1906-REC/229

Add Concrete Support to Regional Preparations for Copenhagen Climate Conference, Deputy Secretary-General Urges Coordination Mechanism of Africa Commission

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s address to the opening of the Regional Coordination Mechanism meeting at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa on 5 November: