With the help of troops deployed from around the region and the world, the Central African Republic was working to implement a three-pronged peace agreement recently signed with a coalition of rebel groups, the top United Nations official in that country said at a Headquarters press conference today.
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Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York today, 22 January:
During its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, South Africa had helped to bolster international peace and security — on the African continent in particular — while advocating for a stronger, more coordinated relationship between the Council and the African Union, the country’s Permanent Representative said at a Headquarters press conference today.
The Security Council would focus in January on comprehensive strategies to stamp out global terrorism and bolster the effectiveness of United Nations peacekeeping operations, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan, which holds the Council’s rotating presidency for the month, said today.
Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, warned at Headquarters today that a situation worse than that in Somalia could develop in the Central African Republic unless the international community and all stakeholders addressed the serious challenges confronting that country.
A groundbreaking resolution just adopted by the General Assembly on female genital mutilation would equip all States to combat those harmful practices, the representative of Burkina Faso, Der Kogda, announced at a Headquarters press conference today.
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Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York on 19 December:
Dialogue between the regions of the Russian Federation and the United Nations could make an important contribution to sustainable development, both in that country and globally, officials said today at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation.
A fundamental, global shift towards coordinated policies focused on boosting jobs and growth was needed to break a vicious cycle of debt, low growth and high unemployment, United Nations economists said this morning during a Headquarters news conference.
Despite “unprecedented gains” in the fight against malaria, especially among children, there was a real danger of slipping back, leading experts in the fight against the disease said at Headquarters today.