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Secretary-General Says Developing Countries Have Special Understanding of Haiti’s Challenges; Hopes Their Continued Support Can Aid Recovery, in New York Remarks

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Secretary-General Says Developing Countries Have Special Understanding of Haiti’s Challenges; Hopes Their Continued Support Can Aid Recovery, in New York Remarks

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a ceremony marking the handover of the Group of 77 Chairmanship in New York, 22 January:

Head of United Nations Mission, Briefing Security Council, Calls On Serbian, Kosovo Authorities to Create Multi-Ethnic Society, Ensure Regional Prosperity

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Head of United Nations Mission, Briefing Security Council, Calls On Serbian, Kosovo Authorities to Create Multi-Ethnic Society, Ensure Regional Prosperity

The senior United Nations official in Kosovo, briefing the Security Council today, called on the authorities in that territory and in Serbia, as well as on Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs, to work together on creating a multi-ethnic society, protecting cultural heritages and ensuring regional prosperity.

Secretary-General Hails ‘Match against Poverty’ for Showing How United Nations, World of Sport Can Work Together to Achieve Millennium Goals

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Secretary-General Hails ‘Match against Poverty’ for Showing How United Nations, World of Sport Can Work Together to Achieve Millennium Goals

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki–moon’s message to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) “Match against Poverty”, as delivered by Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, in Lisbon, Portugal, today, 25 January:

Holocaust Survivors ‘Living Testament That Tyranny, Though it May Rise, Will Surely Not Prevail', Says Secretary-General in International Day Message

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Holocaust Survivors ‘Living Testament That Tyranny, Though it May Rise, Will Surely Not Prevail', Says Secretary-General in International Day Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, observed 27 January:

Civil Society’s Work Has Many Implications for Work of Economic and Social Council, Official Says As Committee on NGOs Opens 2010 Session

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Civil Society’s Work Has Many Implications for Work of Economic and Social Council, Official Says As Committee on NGOs Opens 2010 Session

Civil society was the critical “eyes and ears on the ground”, Nikhil Seth, Director of ECOSOC Support and Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said as the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) opened its 2010 regular session today .

Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Approves Deletion of Five Entries from Consolidated List

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Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Approves Deletion of Five Entries from Consolidated List

On 25 January 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the five entries specified below from its Consolidated List. These de-listings are a result of the review of the Consolidated List called for in paragraph 25 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008).

Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Approves Amendments to 35 Entries on Consolidated List

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Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Approves Amendments to 35 Entries on Consolidated List

On 25 January 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the 35 entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
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