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Role of Sea Law Convention ‘Clearer than Ever’, States Parties Hear as Week-Long Session Opens with Briefings by Main Bodies

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Role of Sea Law Convention ‘Clearer than Ever’, States Parties Hear as Week-Long Session Opens with Briefings by Main Bodies

The twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea opened today, with top officials from the instrument’s three main bodies shining the spotlight on ways they had advanced peaceful dispute settlement, regulated mineral activities in the international seabed and facilitated implementation of the “constitution for the ocean”.

Preventing HIV/AIDS ‘Unfinished Business’, Say Speakers as General Assembly Quantifies Notable Progress in Some Regions, Backsliding in Others

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Preventing HIV/AIDS ‘Unfinished Business’, Say Speakers as General Assembly Quantifies Notable Progress in Some Regions, Backsliding in Others

With great strides made in reversing the global HIV epidemic since the dawn of the new millennium, the international community must build upon that progress — and avoid complacency — as it set out a new, post-2015 development agenda, speakers told the General Assembly this morning.

In Message to Central African Security Forum, Secretary-General Calls for Regional Action on Armed Groups, Criminal Activity

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In Message to Central African Security Forum, Secretary-General Calls for Regional Action on Armed Groups, Criminal Activity

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the fortieth ministerial meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC), delivered by Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), in Luanda today:

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

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

Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman briefed the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, saying that while it remained tenuous in the east, there were grounds for hope, including that the ceasefire continued to largely hold, the number and pace of casualties had slowed and that the process was under way to set up measures to implement the Minsk Agreements.

Deepening Pockets of Violence in Ukraine Can Be ‘Return to Intractable Conflict or Momentary Upsurge’, Top Political Officer Tells Security Council

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Deepening Pockets of Violence in Ukraine Can Be ‘Return to Intractable Conflict or Momentary Upsurge’, Top Political Officer Tells Security Council

The military track as a means to end the crisis in Ukraine had not been abandoned, and a prospect of a return to a deepening, intractable conflict was emerging, the Security Council heard today following the recent escalation of hostilities in eastern parts of that country.

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