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Secretary-General Tells General Assembly “While We Are All in the Same Boat, Not All Have a Say in How to Steer It,’ in Debate on UN in Global Governance

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Secretary-General Tells General Assembly “While We Are All in the Same Boat, Not All Have a Say in How to Steer It,’ in Debate on UN in Global Governance

With gaps in the world’s multilateral frameworks hindering the international community’s ability to comprehensively and equitably meet the most critical global challenges, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for improving the multilateral system’s coherence and efficiency today as the General Assembly convened a day-long informal thematic debate on the United Nations in global governance.

International Community Must Help Bring Parties Back to Talks, Secretary-General Tells Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace

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International Community Must Help Bring Parties Back to Talks, Secretary-General Tells Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Maxwell Gaylard, Deputy United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to the United Nations International Meeting in Support of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, in Brussels on 28 June:

General Assembly Resolution Stresses Need to Ensure that ‘Graduation’ from List of Least Developed Countries Does Not Disrupt Development Progress

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General Assembly Resolution Stresses Need to Ensure that ‘Graduation’ from List of Least Developed Countries Does Not Disrupt Development Progress

Recalling that Member States committed to assisting the world’s 48 least developed countries with an overarching goal of enabling half of them to meet the criteria for graduation from that status by 2020, the General Assembly today adopted a consensus resolution reiterating that graduation not disrupt development progress already achieved.

As Independence of International Civil Service Foundation of Work of United Nations, Staff Union Concerned by Arrests, Detentions of UN Personnel

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As Independence of International Civil Service Foundation of Work of United Nations, Staff Union Concerned by Arrests, Detentions of UN Personnel

The Staff Union and its Committee on the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service deplores the recent deliberate intimidatory actions directed at the United Nations staff by the Governments of the Sudan and Cambodia.

International Meeting on Middle East Appeals to Europe to Back Palestine Recognition Bid

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International Meeting on Middle East Appeals to Europe to Back Palestine Recognition Bid

BRUSSELS, 29 June — As it closed in Brussels this afternoon, the United Nations International Meeting in Support of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process issued a call to the European Union and its Member States to support recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations during the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly.

Parties to Conflict Must Treat Education, Health Facilities as Zones of Peace, Secretary-General Stresses at Event on Attacks against Schools, Hospitals

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Parties to Conflict Must Treat Education, Health Facilities as Zones of Peace, Secretary-General Stresses at Event on Attacks against Schools, Hospitals

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at an event on attacks on schools and hospitals in armed conflict, hosted by the German Mission to the United Nations in New York today, 30 June:
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