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Critical Action To Combat Climate Change
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:41 pm | United Nations
The President of the Maldives implored world leaders gathered at the United Nations to urgently help the group of islands he governs in the middle of the Indian Ocean fight the menace of global warming, in a message to the General Assembly today. More >>
Georgia Speaks Out Against ‘New Dividing Line’
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:40 pm | United Nations
Georgia is “a nation with a deep wound running through her” since fighting broke out last year with South Ossetian and Abkhaz separatists and their Russian allies, its President told the General Assembly tonight, vowing that he and his people will ... More >>
‘Great Green Wall’ Across Africa
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:39 pm | United Nations
Senegal today called for United Nations support for the “Great Green Wall” project in which African countries have agreed to plant trees in a band across the breadth of the continent to try to lessen the effects of desertification. More >>
Efforts To Close Gap Between Rich And Poor
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:38 pm | United Nations
More must be done to shrink the gap between developed and developing nations, countries of Latin America and the Caribbean told the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate. More >>
Need For Security Council Reform
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:27 pm | United Nations
The leaders of European nations today stressed the need for a more representative Security Council, calling for urgent reform of the 15-member body responsible for maintaining international peace and security. More >>
Australia: Preventing Further Financial Crises
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:26 pm | United Nations
Working people and their families have borne the brunt of the economic crisis worldwide, Australia has told the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, calling for an overhaul of global governance to ensure it does not happen again. More >>
Honduran Coup Has Repercussions For All
Monday, 28 September 2009, 1:25 pm | United Nations
The recent coup d’état in Honduras affects all of Central America, the leaders of Guatemala and Panama told the General Assembly today, calling for the reinstatement of deposed President José Manuel Zelaya. More >>
Gambia Implores UN To End Western Abuse Of Africa
Friday, 25 September 2009, 1:14 pm | United Nations
New York, Sep 24 2009 8:11PM The President of Gambia today called on the United Nations to step in and save Africa from the exploitation and discrimination it has suffered at the hands of the developed world, or the continent will take its own action. More >>
Iraq Requests UN Set Up Independent Commission
Friday, 25 September 2009, 1:12 pm | United Nations
Iraq’s President today called on the United Nations to establish an independent international commission to probe a series of deadly bombings and other terrorist attacks in the country since the start of last year that he said can only have been ... More >>
A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:50 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today affirmed its commitment to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and established a broad framework for reducing global nuclear dangers, in an historic summit-level meeting chaired by United States President Barack Obama. More >>
End Of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Critical
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:49 pm | United Nations
A resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on two States existing side by side in peace and security is indispensable to both regional and global peace, the Turkish Prime Minister told the General Assembly today, demanding an opening ... More >>
Peace Process With Israeli, Palestinian Leaders
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:48 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders ahead of today’s meeting of the United Nations and its principal international partners in the search for a solution to the Middle East conflict. More >>
Support Staging Of Elections In Burundi
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:48 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced it will manage a $44 million fund to promote the peaceful staging of presidential, parliamentary and local elections next year in Burundi, which was been wracked by ethnically-based strife ... More >>
Next Bob Dylan Album To Help UN Scheme
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:47 pm | United Nations
Music fans who buy a copy of the upcoming Christmas album by the renowned United States singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will also be giving a helping hand to hungry children around the globe after the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Nations Must Fight Cyber-Crime
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:34 pm | United Nations
The importance of bolstering international cooperation to combat the rising tide of cyber-crime across Asia and the Pacific was underlined by participants of a regional United Nations information and communications technology (ICT) gathering that kicked ... More >>
Somali Drought Crisis Worsens
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:33 pm | United Nations
The drought crisis in war-torn Somalia is turning increasingly acute and spreading to regions previously spared, with half the country’s 7 million people in need of aid, an increasing risk of deaths, and insufficient international donor response, ... More >>
UN Climate Change Summit Succeeded
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations climate change summit convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon succeeded in mobilizing political will ahead of a major conference later this year by focusing the attention of world leaders on the urgent need for action on global ... More >>
Global Crisis: Czech Leader Warns UN
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:27 pm | United Nations
More extensive government regulation would not prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis that has struck the world over the past year, the leader of the Czech Republic told the General Assembly today, urging policy-makers to be cautious about increasing ... More >>
Global Financial Institutions Must Be Democratized
Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:26 pm | United Nations
The major international financial and economic arrangements are unfair and have not kept pace with a changing world, South Africa’s President told the United Nations today, calling for the reform of key institutions so that poorer countries have a ... More >>
