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Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

The Secretary-General supported last Friday’s Syrian peace talks in Vienna while his Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, spent the last two days in Damascus discussing with the Syrian Government the conference’s outcomes and the importance of early confidence-building steps to maintain the spirit of the talks.

Public-Private Partnerships Essential to Ending Corruption, Bribery, Secretary-General Stresses in Message for Conference of Parties

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Yuri Fedotov, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to the sixth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, on 2 November:

Secretary-General Appoints Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia Associate Administrator of United Nations Development Programme

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia as Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Secretary-General, in Message to Nagasaki Conference, Says Only Complete Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Can Remove Their Danger to Humanity

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary General and Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the sixty-first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs — “Nagasaki’s Voice:  Remember Your Humanity”, in Nagasaki, Japan, today: