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Sustainable Development, Climate Finance Take Centre Stage as General Assembly Opens Annual Debate

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With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the international community was poised to reach higher, broader, and deeper, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today as he opened the seventieth session’s general debate.

Environmental Dimension Central to 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, Secretary-General Tells Awards Ceremony

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to the UNEP Champions of the Earth Award ceremony, in New York today:

At Ceremony Unveiling Custom Stamp, Secretary-General Extolls 2030 Agenda’s Focus on World’s 1 Billion Persons with Disabilities

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to a ceremony to unveil the custom stamp sheet on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for persons with disabilities, in New York today: