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27 February 2012

SG/SM/14132-DEV/2937

Secretary-General Urges Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development to Ensure that Revenues Supplement, Not Replace, Traditional Aid

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the tenth plenary meeting of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development, in Madrid on 27 February:

27 February 2012

SG/SM/14131-AFR/2347

Polio Eradication Must Be Treated as Public Health Emergency, Secretary-General Stresses, Hailing Angola’s Efforts at Launch of Vaccination Campaign

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Polio Vaccination Campaign Health Post in Luanda, Angola, on 27 February:

27 February 2012

SG/SM/14128-AFR/2345

A Country that Neglects Its Young Destroys Its Own Potential, Secretary-General Warns at Zambia’s Fountain of Hope Centre for Vulnerable Children

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Fountain of Hope in Kamwala, Zambia, on 25 February:

27 February 2012

SG/SM/14130

Only Negotiated, Two-State Solution Will Fully Restore Jerusalem to Rightful Place as Symbol of Sanctity, Fraternity, Peace for Entire World, Says Secretary-General

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Jerusalem International Forum, delivered by Robert Serry, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, and the Secretary-General’s Envoy to the Quartet, in Doha, 26 February:

27 February 2012

DSG/SM/606-WOM/1891

Rural Women Can Be Life-force of Sustainable, Equitable Future for Humankind, Given Equal Playing Field, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Commission

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s opening remarks to the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York on 27 February:

24 February 2012

SG/SM/14126

Secretary-General, in Message, Urges Syrian Authorities to Cease All Violence, International Community to Act Coherently to Facilitate Peaceful Resolution

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the International Conference of the Friends of the Syrian People, today, 24 February, in Tunis:

24 February 2012

SG/SM/14125-AFR/2344

In Region That Has Suffered Much Conflict, Zambia Stands Tall as Landlocked Island of Peace, Secretary-General Tells National Assembly, Inspired by Its Example

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the National Assembly of Zambia, today, 24 February, in Lusaka:

24 February 2012

GA/PAL/1224

Statement by Bureau of Committee on Exercise of Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People on Israel’s Settlement Activities in Occupied Palestinian Territory

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today, 24 February:

24 February 2012

WOM/1889

Commission on Status of Women to Focus on Rural Women, Their Contributions, Challenges during Fifty-sixth Session at Headquarters, 27 February–9 March

The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will open on 27 February at United Nations Headquarters, focused on the theme of empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, sustainable development and current challenges. The Commission will agree on urgent actions needed to make a real difference in the lives of millions of rural women.