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Successful Elections in Libya Hinge on Legal Framework, Political Agreement among All Stakeholders, Special Representative Tells Security Council

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A senior United Nations official today told the Security Council — intent on ensuring Libya’s progress towards elections later this year to unify the country’s divided Government — that success hinges on a legal framework and a political agreement involving all stakeholders.

Spare No Efforts to Ensure New Oceans Biodiversity Treaty Enters into Force, Secretary-General Tells Intergovernmental Conference

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Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the intergovernmental conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, in New York today: