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PRESS RELEASES |
11 July 2010 – This year, some 60 countries are collecting data and counting people as part of the 2010 census process. 26 June 2010 – As we prepare for this September’s United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, we must recognize the major impediment to development posed by drug abuse and illicit trafficking. As this year’s theme stresses, it is time to “Think Health, Not Drugs”. 26 June 2010 – Torture is a crime under international law. The prohibition of torture is absolute and unambiguous. UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 23 June 2010 – Updated data on mortality rates among mothers and young children are likely to encourage G8 leaders, who at their meeting later this week will make this health issue – long considered a neglected area of international development efforts – a 2010 priority.
23 June 2010 – On the annual observance of Public Service Day, we pay tribute to public servants everywhere who have improved the lives of others in their communities. Ashgabat, 22 June 2010 – The high-level delegation of the European Union visited the UN House in Ashgabat on June 17 to get acquainted with the UN experience of work in the sphere of human rights in Turkmenistan. 20 June 2010 – On this observance of World Refugee Day, we must note a troubling trend: the decline in the number of refugees who are able to go home. |
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UN Secretary-General and UNDP Administrator Thank Turkmenistan for Humanitarian Aid to Haiti |
UN Secretary-General and UNDP Administrator Thank Turkmenistan for Humanitarian Aid to Haiti 29 March 2010 – President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received messages from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNDP Administrator, Chair of the United Nations Development Group, Helen Clark, expressing sincere gratitude to the President of Turkmenistan for the kind donation of the Government of Turkmenistan as well as Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s personal message of sympathy and support to the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.
The messages said this friendly gesture reflects the true spirit of the United Nations.
“The donation has become a great contribution to the recovery efforts in Haiti and an example of the growing role and capacity of a wide range of countries to international development efforts,” Helen Clark noted.
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