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Speakers in Fourth Committee Hail Efforts of Department of Public Information to Expand Audience, Effectively Spread Message on United Nations Priorities

GA/SPD/460

Speakers in Fourth Committee Hail Efforts of Department of Public Information to Expand Audience, Effectively Spread Message on United Nations Priorities

While extending its network beyond traditional means of communication to reach new geographic and demographics audiences, the Department of Public Information (DPI) should also strengthen existing channels such as radio and the United Nations Information Centres, and continue striving to achieve language parity, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard today.

Globalization Tarnished by Failure to Consider ‘Disastrous’ Effects on Poor Countries, as Second Committee Hears Calls for Equity, Fairness

GA/EF/3287

Globalization Tarnished by Failure to Consider ‘Disastrous’ Effects on Poor Countries, as Second Committee Hears Calls for Equity, Fairness

Although once well regarded as a powerful tool for strengthening cooperation and accelerating growth, globalization had resulted in disastrous consequences for developing countries, speakers stressed today as the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) took up its agenda item on globalization and interdependence.

Arms Supplies to Conflict-Ridden Regions with Unmanageable Conventional Weapons Imbalance Enhance Compulsion to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told

GA/DIS/3418

Arms Supplies to Conflict-Ridden Regions with Unmanageable Conventional Weapons Imbalance Enhance Compulsion to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, First Committee Told

Strategically or commercially motivated arms supplies to tense or conflict-ridden regions disrupted delicate balance, enhanced the quest for more balanced conventional capabilities, or, in case of an unmanageable differential, the compulsion for acquiring nuclear weapon and missile capabilities, delegates heard today in the First Committee, along with the introduction of five draft texts.

Calls for Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment ‘Must Be More Than a Mantra; It Must Become a Lived Reality’ for Women in All Countries, Third Committee Told

GA/SHC/3977

Calls for Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment ‘Must Be More Than a Mantra; It Must Become a Lived Reality’ for Women in All Countries, Third Committee Told

Addressing Member States for the first time as head of the newly created UN Women, Under-Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet told delegates today that the establishment of the new entity was a message from the General Assembly that more needed to be done to make the empowerment of women a reality.

On Issue of Transboundary Damage from Hazardous Activities, Some Legal Committee Delegates Urge Study of State Practice

GA/L/3397

On Issue of Transboundary Damage from Hazardous Activities, Some Legal Committee Delegates Urge Study of State Practice

When the Sixth Committee (Legal) today took up the issue of transboundary harm from hazardous activities, the discussion centred largely on how the draft articles on prevention of the harm and the draft principles on allocation of loss could be most effectively engaged, either in concert or independently of one another.

United Nations Remains Fully Committed to Ensuring Women Overcome Obstacles to Engagement at All Levels of Peace Processes, Secretary-General Says

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United Nations Remains Fully Committed to Ensuring Women Overcome Obstacles to Engagement at All Levels of Peace Processes, Secretary-General Says

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “Women Count for Peace” event on Open Days for Women, Peace and Security, in New York today, 21 October:

Despite ‘Glimmers of Hope’, Secretary-General Says, Somalia Still Faces Well-Known Obstacles, Urges Security Council to Increase Support for Transitional Government

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Despite ‘Glimmers of Hope’, Secretary-General Says, Somalia Still Faces Well-Known Obstacles, Urges Security Council to Increase Support for Transitional Government

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council on Somalia, in New York, 21 October:

Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Adds Names of Two Individuals to Its Consolidated List, Amends Eleven Entries

SC/10066

Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Adds Names of Two Individuals to Its Consolidated List, Amends Eleven Entries

On 20 October 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

In Message to Committee on World Food Security, Secretary-General Calls for More Formal Global Governance System, Food Trading Systems that Keep Markets Stable

SG/SM/13172

In Message to Committee on World Food Security, Secretary-General Calls for More Formal Global Governance System, Food Trading Systems that Keep Markets Stable

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Committee on World Food Security, delivered by David Nabarro, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Food Security and Nutrition, in Rome, today, 11 October:
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