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Secretary-General Urges Governments to Translate Commitments into National Action Plans on Sustainable Development Goals at Intelligence Forum

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the forty-second annual Forum on Intelligence on the World, Europe and Italy, held in Cernobbio, Italy, 2‑4 September:

Participants Debate How Virtual Reality Can Trigger Real ‘On-the-Ground’ Change in Israel, Palestine, as International Media Seminar Concludes

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PRETORIA, 2 September — The International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East concluded today, with a panel discussion that explored how virtual and augmented technologies could be used by journalists to help people around the world understand the Israeli-Palestinian story and take action to create change.

Advancing Sustainable Development Goals Depends on Building Peaceful, Inclusive Societies, Secretary-General Says at Event in Colombo

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the event on “SDG16:  Sustaining Peace — Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”, in Colombo today: