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Tobacco Use Boosts Climate Change, Deforestation, Human Rights Abuses, Secretary-General Tells Conference of Parties to Framework Convention

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Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message to the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, held in Geneva from 1 to 6 October:

Secretary-General, at Southeast Asian Ministerial Event, Welcomes Steps to Ease Tensions on Korean Peninsula, Urges Leadership on Human Rights in Myanmar

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Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the United Nations-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting, in New York today:

Secretary-General’s Meeting with Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers, General Assembly President, in New York, 28 September

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The United Nations-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York today.  ASEAN and the United Nations reaffirmed the importance of further strengthening their Comprehensive Partnership towards the fulfilment of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Security Council Sanctions Committee Concerning Iraq Removes One Entity from Its Sanctions List

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On 28 September 2018, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the following entity from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraphs 19 and 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

‘Diversity is Richness, Not a Threat’, Secretary-General tells United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Group of Friends Ministerial Meeting

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Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, to the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Group of Friends ministerial meeting, in New York today: