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Companies, Like Countries, Can Be Asked to Act in Principled Way, Says Deputy Secretary-General, Welcoming Ministerial Statement at Global Compact Summit

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Companies, Like Countries, Can Be Asked to Act in Principled Way, Says Deputy Secretary-General, Welcoming Ministerial Statement at Global Compact Summit

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s closing remarks at the ministerial session of the Global Compact Leaders Summit, yesterday, in New York:

Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Reaffirming Obligations of Administering Powers to Facilitate Genuine Self-Determination

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Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Reaffirming Obligations of Administering Powers to Facilitate Genuine Self-Determination

Expressing deep concern that colonialism had not yet been totally eradicated 50 years after the General Assembly adopted the seminal Declaration on Decolonization, the “Special Committee of 24” unanimously approved today a draft resolution reaffirming the obligations of all administering Powers to create the necessary economic, social and other conditions to enable Non-Self-Governing Territories under their purview to achieve genuine self-government and economic self-reliance.

Concluding Session, Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Proposing Third International Decade for Eradication of Colonialism

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Concluding Session, Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Proposing Third International Decade for Eradication of Colonialism

Concluding its 2010 session, the Special Committee on Decolonization unanimously approved today a draft resolution, which, if adopted by the General Assembly, would pave the way for the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism beginning in 2011, as well as a draft decision by which the Assembly would designate 14 December as the day for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

World’s Business Leaders, in New York Declaration, Vow to Strengthen Efforts to Build Sustainable, Inclusive Economy, as Global Compact Summit Concludes

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World’s Business Leaders, in New York Declaration, Vow to Strengthen Efforts to Build Sustainable, Inclusive Economy, as Global Compact Summit Concludes

As the third Global Compact Leader’s Summit concluded this afternoon, more than 1,200 corporate executives, Government ministers, civil society leaders and other participants vowed to step up their efforts to build a sustainable and inclusive global economy, at what they called a critical moment in history.

United Nations African Meeting on Question of Palestine to Consider Boosting African Support for Just, Lasting Solution, in Rabat, Morocco, 1–2 July

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United Nations African Meeting on Question of Palestine to Consider Boosting African Support for Just, Lasting Solution, in Rabat, Morocco, 1–2 July

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations African Meeting on the Question of Palestine in Rabat, Morocco, at the conference centre of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, from 1 to 2 July.
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