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‘Let’s Keep Our Commitment to Forests Alive,’ Urges Forum Chair, as Session Concludes with Approval of Comprehensive Text

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The Forum on Forests approved a wide-ranging omnibus resolution this evening, which would have the Economic and Social Council extend until 2030 the International Arrangement of actors involved in the management, conservation and sustainable development of the world’s woodlands, and lay out — for the first time — the main objectives of such work for the coming decades.

Secretary-General, in Message to Yemen Conference, Says Pause in Violence Must Evolve into ‘Permanent Ceasefire’, Calls for Renewed Commitment to Peace

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Conference on Yemen, delivered by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy for Yemen, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today: