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United Nations Academic Impact, Council on Foreign Relations to Host Discussion on Hydraulic Fracturing, or ‘Fracking’, 16 July

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United Nations Academic Impact, Council on Foreign Relations to Host Discussion on Hydraulic Fracturing, or ‘Fracking’, 16 July

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), in partnership with the United States-based Council on Foreign Relations, will host a discussion on fracking on 16 July at 1:15 p.m. in Conference Room 4 of the North Lawn Building.

Secretary-General, in Message to Special Meeting of Palestinian Rights Committee, Urges Israeli, Palestinian Leadership to Find Way Back to Negotiations

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Secretary-General, in Message to Special Meeting of Palestinian Rights Committee, Urges Israeli, Palestinian Leadership to Find Way Back to Negotiations

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Oscar Fernández-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Special Meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in New York, today:

Concluding First Political Forum, Economic and Social Council Adopts Declaration Placing Sustainability at Core of Post-2015 Agenda

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Concluding First Political Forum, Economic and Social Council Adopts Declaration Placing Sustainability at Core of Post-2015 Agenda

As the Economic and Social Council concluded its first high-level political forum, it adopted without a vote a shared ministerial declaration with the Council’s high-level segment that called for concerted efforts around the world to meet the Millennium Development Goals and to pave the way to a post-2015 development agenda that included sustainability and the eradication of poverty.

International Community Must Accelerate Efforts to Halt Violence in Gaza, Israel from Spiralling Out of Control, Secretary-General Tells Security Council

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International Community Must Accelerate Efforts to Halt Violence in Gaza, Israel from Spiralling Out of Control, Secretary-General Tells Security Council

Warning at an emergency Security Council meeting this morning of violence spiralling out of control in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to accelerate efforts to immediately halt the escalation as he condemned the rising toll on Palestinian civilians.

United Nations Counts on Development Cooperation Forum to Steer Efforts to Meet Needs of World’s People, Says Secretary-General

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United Nations Counts on Development Cooperation Forum to Steer Efforts to Meet Needs of World’s People, Says Secretary-General

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Development Cooperation Forum of the Economic and Social Council, as delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in New York, today:

Palestinian Rights Committee, 10 Years after International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, Urges Removal of Barrier Wall

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Palestinian Rights Committee, 10 Years after International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, Urges Removal of Barrier Wall

A decade after the International Court of Justice deemed illegal the situation arising from Israel’s construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Rights Committee, in a special meeting, reaffirmed the Court’s findings and called on Israel to immediately dismantle its system of walls and fences and to compensate Palestinians that had sustained damages as a result.

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