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To Strengthen United Nations Peace Operations, General Assembly Urges Replacing Template Approaches with Targeted Efforts, Tailored Mandates, Focus on Dialogue

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To Strengthen United Nations Peace Operations, General Assembly Urges Replacing Template Approaches with Targeted Efforts, Tailored Mandates, Focus on Dialogue

The United Nations should be realistic about future challenges, and ambitious in its responses, speakers told the General Assembly today, as it took up the Secretary-General’s report on the future of the Organization’s peace operations.

Imbalance between Core, Non-Core Funding in United Nations Development System Reoccurring Theme, as Second Committee Discusses Operational Activities

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Imbalance between Core, Non-Core Funding in United Nations Development System Reoccurring Theme, as Second Committee Discusses Operational Activities

Transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development required support tailored to “our changing needs and priorities”, the representative of Maldives told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) as it took up its agenda item on operational activities today.

Recent Initiatives Can Help Forge New Global Development Compact that Pursues Economic Growth, Human Dignity, Secretary-General Tells Fifth Committee

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Recent Initiatives Can Help Forge New Global Development Compact that Pursues Economic Growth, Human Dignity, Secretary-General Tells Fifth Committee

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the proposed budget for the biennium 2016-2017, in New York today:

We Cannot Deliver on Promise of Agenda 2030 without Progress towards Ending Hunger, Undernutrition, Secretary-General Tells Committee on Food Security

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We Cannot Deliver on Promise of Agenda 2030 without Progress towards Ending Hunger, Undernutrition, Secretary-General Tells Committee on Food Security

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by David Nabarro, his Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition, for the forty-second session of the Committee on World Food Security, in Rome today:

As Fourth Committee Continues Hearings, Petitioners Warn that Disputed Western Sahara Could Become ‘Safe Haven’ for Terrorists

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As Fourth Committee Continues Hearings, Petitioners Warn that Disputed Western Sahara Could Become ‘Safe Haven’ for Terrorists

Petitioners on the question of Western Sahara voiced strident opinions on the long-standing dispute as the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) continued its annual debate on decolonization matters this morning, with experts warning that the contested territory could become a “safe haven for terrorism” if the issue was not promptly resolved.

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