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Healthy Oceans Critical for Reducing Poverty, Supporting Sustainable Development, Secretary-General Tells Leaders of Small Island Developing States

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), to the leaders’ luncheon on ocean partnerships for sustainable development, in New York today:

Secretary-General, International Olympic Committee President Commemorate Partnership at Future United Nations Staff Recreation Facility

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and International Olympic Committee (OIC) President Thomas Bach today unveiled a cornerstone plaque to commemorate the United Nations-IOC partnership to build a United Nations staff recreation facility.