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Palestinian Rights Committee Opens 2014 Session upon Launch of International Year of Solidarity, as Speakers Outline Steps to Redress ‘Historical Injustices’

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Palestinian Rights Committee Opens 2014 Session upon Launch of International Year of Solidarity, as Speakers Outline Steps to Redress ‘Historical Injustices’

During today’s official launch of the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the President of the State of Palestine called on the international community to support the observance and expressed hope it would lead to the end of Israel’s 47-year occupation of Palestinian lands and to the creation of an independent Palestinian State with full United Nations membership.

Secretary-General to General Assembly: United Nations Should Not Have to Plead for Troops, Police, Assets ‘While Victims of War and Poverty Suffer and Die’

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Secretary-General to General Assembly: United Nations Should Not Have to Plead for Troops, Police, Assets ‘While Victims of War and Poverty Suffer and Die’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at an informal meeting of the General Assembly to hear a briefing on UN challenges, in New York on 17 January:

Horror at Auschwitz Formative in Defining United Nations, Secretary-General Says at Memorial Service, Expressing Determination to Prevent Similar Catastrophes

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Horror at Auschwitz Formative in Defining United Nations, Secretary-General Says at Memorial Service, Expressing Determination to Prevent Similar Catastrophes

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Park East Synagogue memorial service honouring Holocaust victims, in New York, 18 January:

Climate-Smart Resilient Food Systems Require Broad Coalition Sharing Conviction Hunger Can - and Must - Be Eliminated, Secretary-General Says in Message

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Climate-Smart Resilient Food Systems Require Broad Coalition Sharing Conviction Hunger Can - and Must - Be Eliminated, Secretary-General Says in Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message to the Global Forum on Food and Agriculture and Sixth Agriculture Ministers’ Summit, as delivered by David Nabarro, his Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition, in Berlin, 18 January:
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