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Ban calls
for global leadership:
"We must do more, not
less"
 United
Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon appealed
today for new
leadership on issues
ranging from the
crisis in financial
markets, to climate
change, to dramatic
increases in the
price of food during
opening remarks
at the 63rd session
of the UN General
Assembly in
New York.
"We face a global
financial crisis. We
face a global energy
crisis. A global food
crisis," Ban said. "To
put it bluntly, we face
a development emergency
-- and we must do more,
not less. We must do
more to help our fellow
human beings weather the
gathering storm."
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| President
Bush: "The world
needs a confident and
effective UN" |
 United
States President George
W. Bush gave his final
address to the
United Nations General
Assembly today.
"The United Nations
and other multilateral
organizations are needed
more than ever," Bush
told delegates. "The
world in the 21st century
needs a confident and
effective UN."
Praising UN work in
Afghanistan and Iraq, he
added, "Whatever the
disagreements in this body
over Iraq, we should
celebrate the progress
being made there
today."
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UN forum addresses
Africa's development
needs
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 World
leaders meeting at
the United Nations
have underscored
the urgency of
finding solutions
to the major
challenges facing
Africa, and have
recommitted
themselves to a
global partnership
to help the
continent halve
poverty,
illiteracy and
other
socio-economic
ills by 2015.
Member states
participating in
the high-level
meeting of the
General Assembly
on Africa's
development needs
also stressed that
poverty
eradication,
particularly in
Africa, is the
"greatest
global challenge
facing the world
today,"
according to a
political
declaration
adopted at the end
of the day-long
event.
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Full
transparency from Iran
on nuclear activities
needed, UN agency chief
says
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 The
head of the United
Nations
International Atomic
Energy Agency ( IAEA)
has called on Iran to be
fully transparent about
its nuclear activities,
six years after the
agency began efforts to
clarify those
activities.
Director General Mohamed
ElBaradei told the
IAEA's Board of
Governors that the
agency seeks to focus on
Iran's nuclear
activities, which its
officials have stated is
for peaceful purposes,
but some other countries
contend is driven by
military ambitions.
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UN extends Afghan
security force for
another year
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 The
United Nations
Security Council has
unanimously extended
the mission of the
NATO-led International
Security Assistance Force
(ISAF) in Afghanistan for
another year and called
for it to be strengthened
in the face of increased
violence and terrorism
from the Taliban, al-Qaida
and drug smugglers.
ISAF, which now has 47,600
personnel on the ground,
was established after
United States-led forces
ousted the Taliban regime
in late 2001 to help the
then-interim authorities
maintain security across
the impoverished nation.
The 12-month extension
begins on October 13.
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| UN
celebrates International
Day of Peace |
 United
Nations celebrated the International
Day of Peace on
Sunday, September 21 with
the traditional peace bell
ringing ceremony at UN
headquarters in New York
During the event,
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
sent a text
message for peace, as part
of a UN campaign
that urged cell phone
users to compose peace
messages to be published
on a website and delivered
to world leaders gathered
for the General Assembly
this week.
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Washington
commemorates 60 years of
UN peacekeeping with
Capitol Hill event
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 The
United
Nations Information Center
in Washington, in
collaboration with the Better
World Campaign,
will host a photo exhibit
and reception on Capitol
Hill to commemorate 60
years of UN peacekeeping.
An information fair
featuring Washington
offices of UN
organizations will precede
the reception.
The event is a salute to
supporters of UN
peacekeeping, from Members
of Congress and their
staff, to NGO advocates,
to countries that staff,
equip and supply 20
countries at UN
peacekeeping missions
around the world.
Currently, 110,000
"blue helmets"
from 118 nations are
deployed in some of the
world's most dangerous
places.
Rep. William Delahunt
(D-MA), Prince Zeid Ra'ad
Al-Hussein (Jordan's
ambassador to the United
States), James Warlick of
the United States Department
of State and others
will speak.
The event will take place in
the foyer of the
Rayburn House Office
Building on Thursday,
Sept. 25 from 4 to 6 pm.
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About
the United Nations in
Washington
As
the United Nations office
in Washington, D.C,
the UN
Information Center
serves as the focal
point for UN news and
information to advance
understanding of the
UN and its work, and
to serve as a resource
for United States government
officials, NGOs,
civil-society
organizations and the
American people.
For more information
about the Center or
any of the
UN-affiliated
agencies, please call
202-331-8670, email unicdc@unicwash.org or
visit us online at www.unicwash.org.
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