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Focus in First Committee on ‘Excessively Injurious’ Effects of Cluster Munitions, Landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices, Long after Accords Signed, Combat Ends

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Focus in First Committee on ‘Excessively Injurious’ Effects of Cluster Munitions, Landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices, Long after Accords Signed, Combat Ends

Small arms and light weapons, cluster munitions, anti-personnel mines, booby traps and other explosive devices were “excessively injurious”, and the human cost of their cascading spread and use far outweighed their military significance, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today.

To End Poverty, Ensure Sustainable Development, ‘Calls of the Marginalized’ Must Be Heeded, Secretary-General Says in Message for International Observance

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To End Poverty, Ensure Sustainable Development, ‘Calls of the Marginalized’ Must Be Heeded, Secretary-General Says in Message for International Observance

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October:

United Nations Communications Chief Tells Member States in Fourth Committee 'Working with You, We Can Win Support of Peoples You Represent'

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United Nations Communications Chief Tells Member States in Fourth Committee 'Working with You, We Can Win Support of Peoples You Represent'

“Working with you,” Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, told the Fourth Committee today as it opened its yearly consideration of questions relating to information, “we can, through action and message, help to sustain — or to win — the engagement and support of the peoples you represent.”

Improved Situation Opens ‘New Prospects’ for Mali’s Recovery Though Country Remains Fragile, Special Representative Tells Security Council

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Improved Situation Opens ‘New Prospects’ for Mali’s Recovery Though Country Remains Fragile, Special Representative Tells Security Council

The improved situation in Mali had “opened new prospects” for the West African country’s recovery from near collapse in 2012, but the security situation remained fragile amid asymmetric attacks by extremists and tensions within the Armed Forces, the senior United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today.
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