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UN News Centre - UN Affairs, Secretary General
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A world of news from the world organization.
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Celebrities join push for action on UN-backed development targets
Athletes, singers, actors and other celebrities are lending their voices to push for accelerated progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline, the United Nations announced today.
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Secretary-General to visit Austria and Liechtenstein
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads tomorrow to Austria and Liechtenstein for a week-long official visit that will focus on global governance, European issues and United Nations affairs.
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Top UN official urges young people to use their voices to promote understanding
The second annual Global Model United Nations conference, bringing together hundreds of students from more than 60 countries, wrapped up in the Malaysian capital today with a call by a senior official from the world body for greater dialogue and understanding.
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Kenyan diplomat chosen to lead UN office to the African Union
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed an experienced Kenyan diplomat as the first Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (AU), established earlier this year to strengthen links between the two organizations.
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Ban lauds ratification enabling pact on legal protections for UN staff to enter into force
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the recent ratification by the United Kingdom of a protocol that expands an international treaty aimed at protecting United Nations staff members and other humanitarian workers, thus enabling the pact to enter into force next week.
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On the wings of paper cranes, UN staffers aim to spread message of peace
In 1955, 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki began folding a thousand paper cranes to try to heal her leukaemia, in accordance with a Japanese tradition. Despite surviving the bombing of Hiroshima a decade earlier, she had developed the "atom bomb disease." Over half a century later, United Nations staff members hope to harness that same spirit to remind the world of the horrors wrought by nuclear weapons.
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UN officials mourn five seminar participants killed in accident in Jordan
Two senior United Nations officials today expressed deep sadness over the deaths of five people, including two contractors for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and three Iraqi officials, who were killed in a bus accident in Jordan yesterday.
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