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‘Modern Slavery Is a Crime,’ Secretary-General Declares, Urging Member States to Ratify Relevant Legal Treaties to Help Victims Recover Lives, Dignity

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‘Modern Slavery Is a Crime,’ Secretary-General Declares, Urging Member States to Ratify Relevant Legal Treaties to Help Victims Recover Lives, Dignity

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, commemorated on 2 December:

Renewing Arms Embargo on Democratic Republic of Congo, Security Council Seeks Mandate Extension for Expert Group Monitoring Related Sanctions

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Renewing Arms Embargo on Democratic Republic of Congo, Security Council Seeks Mandate Extension for Expert Group Monitoring Related Sanctions

Condemning the continuing illicit flow of weapons within and into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Security Council today renewed until 30 November 2011 the arms embargo and related sanctions on that country, and requested the Secretary-General to extend the mandate of the Group of Experts monitoring those measures.

Ninth United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference to Address Pressing Disarmament, Non-Proliferation Issues

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Ninth United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference to Address Pressing Disarmament, Non-Proliferation Issues

The Ninth United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues will take place on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, from 2 to 3 December. The annual event is organized jointly by the Office for Disarmament Affairs through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific and the Government of the Republic of Korea.

Coming Year Should Finally See Peace in the Middle East, Despite Impasse, Says Secretary-General on International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

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Coming Year Should Finally See Peace in the Middle East, Despite Impasse, Says Secretary-General on International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

Despite a mood of pessimism among Palestinians and Israelis alike, the coming year should be the one in which a just and lasting peace would finally be achieved in the Middle East, in line with United Nations resolutions, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Budget Committee Takes Up Progress Reports on Enterprise Resource Planning Project — ‘Umoja’; Information and Communications Technology Strategy

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Budget Committee Takes Up Progress Reports on Enterprise Resource Planning Project — ‘Umoja’; Information and Communications Technology Strategy

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today debated the Organization’s ongoing efforts to overhaul an outdated information and communications technology system and carry out an enterprise resource planning project called Umoja, so it could deliver its services around the world more quickly and efficiently.

Mine-Ban Convention is ‘Indispensable Element of Humanitarian Disarmament Frameworks’, Secretary-General Tells Tenth Meeting of States Parties

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Mine-Ban Convention is ‘Indispensable Element of Humanitarian Disarmament Frameworks’, Secretary-General Tells Tenth Meeting of States Parties

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Tenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, today 29 November:
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