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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:

Secretary-General, in Security Council Debate on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, Cites ‘Fundamental Failure’ By Parties to Respect Obligations

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Secretary-General, in Security Council Debate on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, Cites ‘Fundamental Failure’ By Parties to Respect Obligations

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the open debate of the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, in New York, today, 11 November:

International Community Not Lacking Standards in Middle East, but Effort to Implement Them, Fourth Committee Told in Debate on Israeli Practices

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International Community Not Lacking Standards in Middle East, but Effort to Implement Them, Fourth Committee Told in Debate on Israeli Practices

What the international community faced today concerning the “crimes committed in Gaza by the Israeli regime was not a lack of standards and norms, but a need for greater effort to implement them”, Iran’s representative told the Fourth Committee as it concluded its general debate on Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
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