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Digital Breakthroughs Must Serve Betterment of People, Planet, Speakers Tell Security Council during Day-Long Debate on Evolving Cyberspace Threats

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While advances in digital technology offer incredible opportunities to create a better future for all, “breakthroughs must be oriented towards the good”, the leader of the United Nations told the Security Council today during a day-long debate on evolving cyberspace threats, during which speakers spotlighted myriad examples of the opposite.

Highlighting Significant Gains against HIV/AIDS, Top UN Officials Tell General Assembly Global Goal of Ending Deadly Disease as Public Health Threat by 2030 Is within Reach

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The global response to HIV/AIDS has been “a success story”, senior United Nations officials told the General Assembly today, as delegates spotlighted significant gains in the fight against the widespread disease as well as the remaining challenges to ending the public health scare by 2030.

Noting ‘End of AIDS Is in Sight’, Deputy Secretary-General Urges Building on Immense Progress Made, Finishing Job, in Remarks to General Assembly

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Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly’s annual review of HIV/AIDS, in New York today:

Deputy Secretary-General Calls for Funding Resident Coordinator System More Sustainably, in Message to Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization

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Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the meeting with the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in Paris today: