Secretary-General Calls on Executive Boards of United Nations Organizations to ‘Take Innovation to the Next Level’

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The following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the joint meeting of the Executive Boards of the UN Development Fund (UNDP), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in New York today:

Secretary-General Tells Regional Oversight Mechanism ‘We Must Continue to Speak with One Voice’ to End Conflict, Improve Lives of People in Great Lakes Region

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the fifth meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region, in Addis Ababa today:

Concluding First Week of 2015 Session, Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Recommends Status for 11 Entities, Defers Action on 59 Others

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Wrapping up the first week of its 2015 regular session, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 11 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and deferred action on 59 others.