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Secretary-General Notes Need for Realism While Stressing Importance of Forward Momentum, in Remarks to High-level Segment of Durban Climate Talks

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Secretary-General Notes Need for Realism While Stressing Importance of Forward Momentum, in Remarks to High-level Segment of Durban Climate Talks

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the seventeenth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties High-level Segment in Durban, South Africa, on 6 December:

Text Recommending Adoption of Protocol to Child Rights Convention Establishing Communications Procedure for Individual Complaints Approved By Third Committee

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Text Recommending Adoption of Protocol to Child Rights Convention Establishing Communications Procedure for Individual Complaints Approved By Third Committee

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today approved a draft resolution that would have the General Assembly adopt a new, third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child establishing a communications procedure, which would allow the Committee overseeing the Convention’s implementation to receive and examine individual complaints from children and to organize country visits to investigate cases of grave and systematic violations of children’s rights.

General Assembly Adopts Resolution Aimed at Ensuring Sustainability of World’s Fisheries, as It Holds Annual Debate on UN Regime Protecting Seas, Oceans

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General Assembly Adopts Resolution Aimed at Ensuring Sustainability of World’s Fisheries, as It Holds Annual Debate on UN Regime Protecting Seas, Oceans

In the face of the increasingly devastating scourge of climate change and a global financial crisis that demanded the smarter use of natural resources, delegates in the General Assembly stressed today that urgent action was needed in efforts to sustainably manage the world oceans and marine ecosystems.

To Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, Secretary-General Encourages Leaders to Make Tough Choices — Providing for Today while Investing in Tomorrow

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To Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, Secretary-General Encourages Leaders to Make Tough Choices — Providing for Today while Investing in Tomorrow

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message to the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, in Durban, South Africa, 6 December:

Secretary-General Says Green Climate Fund ‘Must Not Be Empty Shell’, Parties in Durban Must Ensure Its Launch, Agree to Scale up Fast-Start Financing

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Secretary-General Says Green Climate Fund ‘Must Not Be Empty Shell’, Parties in Durban Must Ensure Its Launch, Agree to Scale up Fast-Start Financing

Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks on mobilizing long-term climate financing for developing countries, in Durban, South Africa, 7 December:

Celebrating Life-Saving Treaties on Refugees, Statelessness, Secretary-General Seeks Support, Solidarity for Refugees

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Celebrating Life-Saving Treaties on Refugees, Statelessness, Secretary-General Seeks Support, Solidarity for Refugees

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message, aired on 7 December, for the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, held in Geneva, 6-7 December:

Withdrawal of United States Forces in Iraq at Year’s End Will Give Iraqis Chance to Prove Themselves, But Entails Many Challenges, UN Envoy Tells Security Council

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Withdrawal of United States Forces in Iraq at Year’s End Will Give Iraqis Chance to Prove Themselves, But Entails Many Challenges, UN Envoy Tells Security Council

The withdrawal of United States forces in Iraq by the end of the year would be an important milestone that entailed many challenges even as it provided all Iraqis the opportunity to prove to themselves that they could build a peaceful and better future and gave the country’s political and elected officials the chance to consolidate democratic and economic gains, the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) told the Security Council this morning.
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