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Bridge from Despair to Hope Built with Solidarity, Says Secretary-General in Message Read at Opening of Exhibition on Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, at the exhibition “25 Years after Chernobyl: Cooperation for Sustainable Development”, in New York today, 25 April:

Activities of Secretary-General in Russian Federation, 21-23 April

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Moscow from Kyiv on Thursday afternoon, 21 April. His first appointment was to visit a centre for children with disabilities. He discussed the global problem of disability, at a time when about 10 per cent of the world’s people live with a disability — whether it is physical, emotional or sensory.