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SOC/4792

United Nations Report: World Youth Deeply Concerned about Employment Prospects, Call for Increased Investment

Young people around the world are deeply concerned about a lack of job opportunities and are calling for increased investment in that area, according to the latest World Youth Report, issued today by the United Nations. In the aftermath of the economic crisis, the global youth unemployment rate saw its largest annual increase on record in 2009, resulting in around 75.8 million unemployed youth.
SG/SM/14094-GA/PAL/1218

Secretary-General, in Message to UN Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People, Says Status Quo Is Unacceptable, Guarantees Continuing Conflict, Suffering

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, delivered by Maxwell Gaylard, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Coordinator for Humanitarian and Development Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in Cairo on 6 February:
GA/PAL/1216

United Nations Seminar on Assistance to Palestinian People Considers Economic Cost of Continued Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territory, in Cairo, 6-7 February

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, in Cairo, Egypt, at the Sofitel Cairo El Gezirah, on 6 and 7 February. The theme of the Seminar is “The economic cost of continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory: local, regional and international efforts towards mitigating it”.