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Delegates Examine 2016/17 Peacekeeping Budget, Concerns over Payment Arrears, Borrowing between Missions, as Fifth Committee Begins Resumed Session

GA/AB/4195

Budget requirements for United Nations peacekeeping operations, which would top $8.3 billion for the 2016/17 fiscal period, would figure prominently in upcoming negotiations, as the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today opened the second part of its resumed seventieth session.

Spur Innovation, Unleash Investments in Shared Sustainable Development Goals, Secretary-General Tells Industry Leaders at Private-Sector Peace Summit

SG/SM/17722

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Lise Kingo, Executive Director of the Global Compact, to the 2016 Business for Peace Summit honouree dinner, in Oslo, today: