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Fifth Committee Takes Up Financing for Peacekeeping Missions in Haiti, Sudan, Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Support for African Union Mission in Somalia

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Fifth Committee Takes Up Financing for Peacekeeping Missions in Haiti, Sudan, Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Support for African Union Mission in Somalia

Secretariat officials today laid out their financing proposals for the 2011/12 period for four peacekeeping operations — the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and support for African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) — to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today at its second resumed session.

Twenty Years after Rio Summit, World’s Ecosystems Still Threatened by Unsustainable Consumption, Production, Commission Told as High-Level Segment Opens

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Twenty Years after Rio Summit, World’s Ecosystems Still Threatened by Unsustainable Consumption, Production, Commission Told as High-Level Segment Opens

Twenty years after participants to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro first recognized that unsustainable consumption and production patterns formed the biggest threat to the Earth’s capacity to satisfy human needs, that challenge continued to loom large and finding a framework to control it must be seen as a strategic priority, the Commission on Sustainable Development was told today, as it opened its three-day high-level segment.

Secretary-General Appoints Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane of Niger Deputy Joint Special Representative (Political), AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur

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Secretary-General Appoints Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane of Niger Deputy Joint Special Representative (Political), AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union, Jean Ping, have appointed Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane of Niger as Deputy Joint Special Representative (Political) in the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).

Activities of Secretary-General in Bulgaria, 5-7 May

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Activities of Secretary-General in Bulgaria, 5-7 May

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sofia on Thursday afternoon, 5 May, where his first meeting was with the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova. The Secretary-General next met with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. The Prime Minister and the Secretary-General discussed climate change, nuclear safety, disaster risk reduction and the fight against corruption

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to Review Progress, at Headquarters 16-27 May; Implementation of Recommendations on Development, Environment, Consent to Be Focus

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Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to Review Progress, at Headquarters 16-27 May; Implementation of Recommendations on Development, Environment, Consent to Be Focus

More than 1,300 delegates are expected to attend the tenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at Headquarters in New York from 16 to 27 May. This year’s Permanent Forum will be especially significant, since it is a review year, which will focus on the implementation of Forum recommendations on economic and social development, the environment and free, prior and informed consent.
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