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Secretary-General Hails Winners of Millennium Development Goals Awards While Stressing Need for Urgent Action in Time Left to Target Year

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Secretary-General Hails Winners of Millennium Development Goals Awards While Stressing Need for Urgent Action in Time Left to Target Year

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Millennium Development Goals Awards ceremony, delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in New York on 19 September:

Government, Business Leaders to Launch Online ‘Toolbox’ 21 September in New York, in Parallel with United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit

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Government, Business Leaders to Launch Online ‘Toolbox’ 21 September in New York, in Parallel with United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit

Government leaders and Chief Executive Officers from technology corporations from all continents, and senior United Nations officials will start the day right tomorrow, 21 September, with a high-level meeting at the Millennium Hotel and the launch of an online set of tools to help achieve world anti-poverty goals.

Secretary-General Reiterates United Nations Determination to Help Central African Republic Achieve Peace, Stability, Development

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Secretary-General Reiterates United Nations Determination to Help Central African Republic Achieve Peace, Stability, Development

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the high-level side event on Addressing Peacebuilding and Development Challenges in the Central African Republic, in New York today, 20 September:

‘The Clock is Ticking,’ Secretary-General Says, Urging World Leaders to Generate Resources, Political will to Achieve Millennium Development Goals by 2015

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‘The Clock is Ticking,’ Secretary-General Says, Urging World Leaders to Generate Resources, Political will to Achieve Millennium Development Goals by 2015

Despite obstacles, scepticism and a fast-approaching 2015 deadline, the Millennium Development Goals could be achieved if the global community stayed true to the promise made a decade ago to end the dehumanizing conditions of poverty by making smart investments in infrastructure, opening export markets and generally rethinking conventional wisdom, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders today as he opened the General Assembly’s high-level meeting to take stock of progress.

Peacebuilding Commission, World Bank Host Event at Headquarters to Bolster Support for Central African Republic’s Efforts to Tackle Development Challenges

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Peacebuilding Commission, World Bank Host Event at Headquarters to Bolster Support for Central African Republic’s Efforts to Tackle Development Challenges

On the first day of the 2010 Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the World Bank’s Vice-President for the Africa region, Obiageli Ezekwesili, added their voices to that of the President of the Central African Republic, François Bozizé, to increase international attention for critical peacebuilding and development challenges in his post-conflict country.

Secretary-General, at Millennium Goals Summit Side Event, Says Growth, Dynamism in Least Developed Countries Can Help Spur Global Economic Recovery

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Secretary-General, at Millennium Goals Summit Side Event, Says Growth, Dynamism in Least Developed Countries Can Help Spur Global Economic Recovery

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Millennium Development Goals Summit side event on the least developed countries, in New York, today, 21 September:

Secretary-General, at Summit Event, Urges Leaders to Ensure Each Decision They Make Helps Reduce Risk of Under-nutrition

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Secretary-General, at Summit Event, Urges Leaders to Ensure Each Decision They Make Helps Reduce Risk of Under-nutrition

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Millennium Development Goals Summit event “1,000 Days: Change a Life, Change the Future: Partnering to Reduce Child Under-nutrition”, in New York, today, 21 September:
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