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Secretary-General Tells Emergency Meeting on Horn of Africa that Short-Term Relief Must Be Linked to Building Long-Term Sustainability

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, to the Emergency Ministerial Meeting on the Horn of Africa, in Rome today, 25 July:

Statement by Chairman of Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict

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At its thirty-first meeting, on 22 June 2011, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the consideration of the second report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Central African Republic (document S/2011/241), to address the following message to all parties to the conflict in the Central African Republic, through public statements by the Chairman of the Working Group:

Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Opens Photo Exhibition on World’s Stateless People at United Nations Headquarters

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today opened a photo exhibition entitled “The World’s Stateless” in the Visitors’ Lobby of the United Nations Secretariat in New York.

Secretary-General, at Dinner Honouring Outgoing Peacekeeping Chief, Hails ‘Hands-on Manager’ Alain Le Roy’s Vision, Bravery, Exceptional Dedication

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the dinner in honour of Alain Le Roy, Under-secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, hosted by Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, in New York, 25 July:

At Summit Meeting Coined by Youth Representative as ‘International Tahrir Square’, Secretary-General Says Failure to Invest in Young People ‘A False Economy’

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With young people leading the charge for social change around the world, reinvigorated investments in youth were more critical than ever before, said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today as he opened a High-level Meeting referred to, by one young delegate from Egypt, as a sort of “international Tahrir Square”.