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Avoid Escalating ‘Highly Tense’ West Bank Situation, Secretary-General Stresses, in Message for United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People

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Avoid Escalating ‘Highly Tense’ West Bank Situation, Secretary-General Stresses, in Message for United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Sahle-Work Zewde, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi, to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, in Nairobi today:

Security Council Committee Concerning Democratic Republic of Congo Updates List of Individuals and Entities Subject to Travel Ban, Assets Freeze

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Security Council Committee Concerning Democratic Republic of Congo Updates List of Individuals and Entities Subject to Travel Ban, Assets Freeze

On 30 June 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo added the following entity to the List of Individuals and Entities Subject to the Measures Imposed by paragraphs 13 and 15 of resolution 1596 (2005), as renewed by paragraph 3 of resolution 2136 (2014).

We Must Close All Gaps in Education, Health, Secretary-General Says at Event Launching Visit to Africa by Millennium Development Goals Advocates

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We Must Close All Gaps in Education, Health, Secretary-General Says at Event Launching Visit to Africa by Millennium Development Goals Advocates

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, at the launch of the Millennium Development Goals Advocates’ field trip to Africa, in Kigali today:

Ensuring Better Lives for Future Generations among Key Sustainable Development Challenges, Delegates in High-Level Political Forum Told

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Ensuring Better Lives for Future Generations among Key Sustainable Development Challenges, Delegates in High-Level Political Forum Told

Discussion in the Economic and Social Council high-level political forum today centred around the impact of the past three generations on the next two and the need to “be fair” as actions today would influence quality of life tomorrow.

Secretary-General, in Message for Joint Meeting of Parties, Applauds Efforts to Empower People with Right to Healthy, Favourable Environment

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Secretary-General, in Message for Joint Meeting of Parties, Applauds Efforts to Empower People with Right to Healthy, Favourable Environment

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Joint High-level Segment of the Meetings of Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and Its Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, in Maastricht, Netherlands, today:
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