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GENEVA / JAPAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE MECHANISM
Head of the World Meteorological Organization Michel Jarraud today talked about the importance of knowing "where the nuclear particles will go" when washed down by precipitation as the…
15 March 2011
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UN / AFGHANISTAN
UN Special Representative in Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council today that recent security incidents, including an attack on the "iconic" Hotel- Intercontinental Kabul…
6 July 2011
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SOMALIA / PRINCE AL-WALEED
Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia visited famine victims in Somalia and met with members of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) including President Sheikh Sharif…
29 August 2011
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UN / SOMALIA WRAP
Addressing the Security Council today, UN Special Representative for Somalia Augustine Mahiga warned that the "scale of humanitarian suffering is immense" and the "security situation…
10 August 2011
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IMF / STRAUSS-KAHN
In a press conference ahead of the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, Strauss-Kahn argued that the world economy is recovering, but in an unbalanced way. He said such imbalances are among the main…
14 April 2011
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AFGHANISTAN / WITTIG WRAP
On the possibility of removing some Taliban members from the Council's sanctions list, Ambassador Peter Wittig, who also chairs the Security Council committee that monitors the sanctions for…
8 June 2011
General Assembly
67th Plenary Meeting of General Assembly: 50th Session - Part 1
Increased cooperation sought with Arab League, Islamic Conference, by terms of two General Assembly resolutions at the 67th plenary meeting of the 50th session.
20 November 1995
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UN / MEXICO BIODIVERSITY
On the occasion of Mexico's signature of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Mexico's Minister of Environment Juan Rafael Elvira told reporters today that his country wanted to send a…
24 February 2011
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UN / DEATH PENALTY
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates he was “troubled” by the application of the death penalty for offences that do not meet the threshold under international human rights law of “most…
2 July 2014
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GENEVA / HRC LIBYA WRAP
UN human rights investigators denied today that they had heard any reports of cannibalism following claims by Libya to the Human Rights Council that Libyan rebels had been involved in cannibalism. CH…
9 June 2011
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SOUTH SUDAN / PANYUME YEI
A high-level delegation led by the Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, travelled into the heart of opposition territory in the central Equatorias, the only part…
17 April 2019
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UN / WOMEN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE LAUNCH
A new UN report says that millions of women worldwide continue to experience injustice, violence and inequality in their homes, the workplace and public life and calls on governments to take urgent…
6 July 2011