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Ukraine To Host Forum Marking Chernobyl
Friday, 24 September 2010, 4:15 pm | United Nations
Ukraine will host a high-level UN-backed conference next year to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident and assess the progress towards restoring and normalizing life in the region affected by the disaster. More >>
Africa Is Ready For A ‘New Beginning,’
Friday, 24 September 2010, 4:11 pm | United Nations
Africa is striving to transform itself politically and economically for the benefit of its people, the chairman of the African Union told the General Assembly today, saying leaders in the continent were working to eradicate hunger, disease and poverty. More >>
China Reaffirms Support For UN's Role In World
Friday, 24 September 2010, 4:07 pm | United Nations
China will continue to firmly support the leading role of the United Nations in international affairs, and its economic development will not harm or pose a threat to anyone, Premier Wen Jiabao assured the General Assembly today. More >>
Secretary-General Calls For End To Nuclear Tests
Friday, 24 September 2010, 4:00 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on all countries to work together to rid the world of the nuclear threat and to bring about the early entry into force of the United Nations-backed treaty banning nuclear testing. More >>
Afghan Elections Top The Agenda Of Talks
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:57 pm | United Nations
Last weekend’s Afghan parliamentary elections were the focus of talks between the country’s Foreign Minister and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Zalmai Rassoul and Mr. Ban discussed the implementation of the Afghan Government’s post-election priorities More >>
UN Summit Confident Of Achieving MDGs On Time
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:56 pm | United Nations
While expressing deep concern that progress has fallen short of what is needed, a UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals voiced confidence that targets to slash hunger, poverty, disease and other social ills can be achieved by 2015. More >>
Secretary-General And Sudan VP Discuss Referenda
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:50 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the First Vice-President of Sudan Salva Kiir today held discussions on the upcoming referenda in the African country on the self-determination of southern Sudan and the central region of Abyei. More >>
Female Education Vital For All MDGs
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:48 pm | United Nations
Growing up in Morocco in the 1960s and early 1970s United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador Nawal El Moutawakel had personal experience of the ills that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seek to eliminate. More >>
Chinese Leader Confer On Poverty Issues
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:46 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao today discussed progress towards the achievement of the poverty eradication and social-economic development targets known as the Millennium Development Goals, particularly in Africa. More >>
Pledge To Scale Up Efforts To End Malaria Deaths
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:43 pm | United Nations
African leaders and global health experts rallied at the United Nations today to boost access to life-saving bednets and medicines as part of the fight against malaria, aiming to reach the goal of near-zero deaths by 2015. More >>
New UN Entity To Be ‘Champion’ Of Gender Equality
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:40 pm | United Nations
The first head of the new United Nations super-agency on female empowerment today voiced hope that the body will be a “strong champion” of gender equality and hasten existing UN efforts to advance the cause of women and girls. More >>
New Approach To Speed Up Progress On Poverty Goals
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:39 pm | United Nations
The UN unveiled a new tool to help countries overcome barriers in achieving the ambitious anti-poverty targets leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015: ending poverty and hunger, expanding access to education and improving maternal and child health. More >>
Resumption of policing responsibilities in Aileu
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:47 pm | United Nations
21 September, 2010, Dili – The International Day of Peace in Timor-Leste was highlighted by the latest resumption of responsibility by the Policia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) who took charge in Timor-Leste’s Aileu District this morning. The ceremony, ... More >>
Stepped-up Action to Meet Development Targets
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:33 pm | United Nations
World leaders continued to press for greater action in the five remaining years to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on the second day of a General Assembly summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York. More >>
Serbia And Kosovo Must Engage in Dialogue
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:32 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo over the latter’s unilateral declaration of independence in 2008. More >>
Initiative to Attain Millennium Development Goals
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:31 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the launch today in New York of a global initiative to harness digital technologies to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). More >>
Panel to Monitor Sudanese Referenda
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:29 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he has appointed the three members of a United Nations panel tasked with monitoring the upcoming referenda on the self-determination of Southern Sudan and the Abyei Area. More >>
Israel must Extend Moratorium on Settlements
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for a Middle East peace today urged Israel to continue its settlement moratorium in the occupied Palestinian territory in the interests of resumed negotiations between the sides and called on ... More >>
More Nations Ban Use of Child Soldiers
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:27 pm | United Nations
Hailing the move by several countries to ban the use of child soldiers, a top United Nations official urged today that all nations that have not yet done so take the important step of signing and ratifying the global treaty that serves to protect ... More >>
Central African Republic Can Rely on UN
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 12:26 pm | United Nations
The United Nations will continue to help the Central African Republic (CAR) to consolidate peace after years of ethnic conflict and political unrest by enhancing political dialogue and the reintegration of former fighters into national society. More >>
