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Security Council Extends Western Sahara Mission until 30 April 2016, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2218 (2015)

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Security Council Extends Western Sahara Mission until 30 April 2016, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2218 (2015)

Deciding to extend by one year the mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), the Security Council adopted today a resolution calling on all parties to continue to show political will to enter into a more intensive and substantive phase of negotiations to resolve the territorial dispute.

No State or International Body Ready to Address Uncontrollable Destructive Capacity of Nuclear Weapons Use, Treaty Parties Told during Review

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No State or International Body Ready to Address Uncontrollable Destructive Capacity of Nuclear Weapons Use, Treaty Parties Told during Review

“No State or international body could address the immediate humanitarian emergency caused by a nuclear weapon detonation or provide adequate assistance to victims,” Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz told delegates today, as the month-long Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) reconvened.

Adopting Resolution 2217 (2015), Security Council Renews Mandate of Mission in Central African Republic, Calls for Contributing Uniformed Personnel

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Adopting Resolution 2217 (2015), Security Council Renews Mandate of Mission in Central African Republic, Calls for Contributing Uniformed Personnel

The Security Council today decided to extend by one year the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and recalled its intention to continuously review the current troop ceiling of 10,750 military personnel, including additional troops authorized by resolution 2212 (2015).

Protecting Environment Is ‘an Urgent Moral Imperative’, Sacred Duty for All People of Faith, Secretary-General Tells Vatican Workshop on Climate Change

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Protecting Environment Is ‘an Urgent Moral Imperative’, Sacred Duty for All People of Faith, Secretary-General Tells Vatican Workshop on Climate Change

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the workshop on the moral dimensions of climate change and sustainable development, “Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity”, in the Vatican City today:

New Ideas Vital to Shoring Up Non-Proliferation Treaty, Confronting Obstacles, Secretary-General Says in Symposium Message

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New Ideas Vital to Shoring Up Non-Proliferation Treaty, Confronting Obstacles, Secretary-General Says in Symposium Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the symposium entitled “The Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Energy:  Fresh Ideas for the Future”, in New York today:

‘The People of Ukraine Can Count on the UN’, Secretary-General Says in Message to International Support Conference

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‘The People of Ukraine Can Count on the UN’, Secretary-General Says in Message to International Support Conference

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the International Ukraine Support Conference, delivered by Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), in Kyiv today:

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