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General Assembly President, at Commemoration of 11 September 2001 Attacks, Urges Member States to Work for Convention on Terrorism during Upcoming Session

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Amid a commemoration ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001, the President of the General Assembly today called on Member States to work for the swift conclusion of a draft general convention on terrorism during the world body’s upcoming sixty-sixth session.

Deputy Secretary-General, at Commemoration, Says Attacks of 11 September 2001 Targeted Universal Values That United Nations Was Created to Defend

DSG/SM/572-GA/11130
Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the General Assembly ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, in New York, 9 September 2011:

Secretary-General, in Message to Horn of Africa Summit, Calls Unfolding Situation in Drought-Hit Region ‘a Failure of Resilience’

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sahle-Work Zewde, Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi, to the Horn of Africa Summit being held there today, 9 September: