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Secretary-General, Addressing Contracting Parties to Protocol V to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Urges Stronger Measures to Help Victims

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Secretary-General, Addressing Contracting Parties to Protocol V to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Urges Stronger Measures to Help Victims

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the third Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in Geneva today, 9 November:

Secretary-General Calls for ‘New Vision’ for Year of Biodiversity, Stressing Sustainable Forest Management, Watershed Protection, Coral Conservation

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Secretary-General Calls for ‘New Vision’ for Year of Biodiversity, Stressing Sustainable Forest Management, Watershed Protection, Coral Conservation

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Year of Biodiversity (2010), the initial celebrations for which begin today, 9 November 2009:

Secretary-General’s Video Message for Biodiversity Year Urges All Countries, Citizens on Planet to Join Global Alliance to Protect Life on Earth

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Secretary-General’s Video Message for Biodiversity Year Urges All Countries, Citizens on Planet to Join Global Alliance to Protect Life on Earth

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the International Year of Biodiversity, 2010, initial celebrations for which begin, today, 9 November 2009:

Budget Committee Is Told of Progress in Construction Phase of Capital Master Plan for Renovation of United Nations Headquarters Complex

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Budget Committee Is Told of Progress in Construction Phase of Capital Master Plan for Renovation of United Nations Headquarters Complex

As the Fifth Committee this morning considered the progress achieved during the first year of the construction phase of the Capital Master Plan, speakers stressed the highest priority of the smooth and cost-effective implementation of the project and its timely completion.

Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Question of Palestine for Adoption by General Assembly

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Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Question of Palestine for Adoption by General Assembly

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People today recommended adoption by the General Assembly of four draft resolutions concerning its work, the work of the Division for Palestinian Rights and of the Department of Public Information regarding the question of Palestine as well as the peaceful settlement of that question.

Some 400 Million People Could Join Ranks of Slum Dwellers by 2020 Unless Urgent Action Is Taken to Reverse Trend, UN–Habitat Tells Second Committee

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Some 400 Million People Could Join Ranks of Slum Dwellers by 2020 Unless Urgent Action Is Taken to Reverse Trend, UN–Habitat Tells Second Committee

One out of every three people residing in cities around the globe lived in a slum, and unless the problem was dealt with, another 400 million people would join their ranks by 2020, Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today, as it continued its consideration of sustainable development.

Secretary-General, Addressing Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to Conventional Weapons Treaty, Calls Attention to Threat of Mines

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Secretary-General, Addressing Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to Conventional Weapons Treaty, Calls Attention to Threat of Mines

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the eleventh annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), in Geneva, today, 11 November:
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