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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development
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Message on World Malaria Day

Two years ago, I called for malaria prevention and treatment programmes to be made universally available to at-risk populations by the end of 2010. This World Malaria Day brings much cause for satisfa
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Message for UN Business for the Environment Global Summit

Your Excellency, President Lee Myung-bak, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, I am pleased to open this year's Business for Environment Global Summit. I also take pleasure in congratulating th
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Message on International Mother Earth Day

Mother Earth ? our only home ? is under pressure. We are making progressively unreasonable demands on her, and she is showing the strain. For all of human history we have depended on nature's bounty f
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Remarks at Earth Day event

It is a pleasure to be here. For forty years, Earth Day has helped create a sense of shared responsibility for our environment and our one and only home. Millions of Americans and people around t
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Remarks to special event to mark the International Year on the Rapprochement of Cultures

It is a great pleasure to join with you to mark the International Year on the Rapprochement of Cultures ? and to highlight dialogue and understanding among peoples and faiths. Let me explain why

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Message to People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights

Mother Earth ? our only home ? is under pressure. We are making progressively unreasonable demands on her, and she is showing the strain. For all of human history we have depended on nature's bounty f
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Remarks to the thematic debate of the UN General Assebly on Disarmament and World Security

I would like to thank particularly His Excellency the President of the General Assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, for convening this thematic debate on Disarmament and World Security. This session coul
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Remarks at opening of the Ninth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Many of you have traveled long distances to be here today, and I thank you ver
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Remarks to Security Cuoncil Open Debate on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Thank you, Mr. President, Foreign Minister Okada of Japan, Distinguished Foreign Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Afghanistan, Distinguished Ministers from Sierra Leone and Timor Leste, Disting
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Remarks at high-level luncheon on Women's and Children's Health

I thank you very much for being here. Thank you for committing to do your utmost towards ensuring that every woman and child on earth has the chance they deserve to live long, healthy lives.

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Message for World Health Day 2010

For the first time in history, more people live in cities and towns than in rural areas. In a parallel trend, the burden of world poverty is also shifting from sparsely populated rural areas to densel
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Lecture at the University for World Economy and Democracy

What a pleasure to be with you in Tashkent, this city of parks and fountains, reborn after the earthquake that destroyed so much of this city-- this famous city of history.
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State of the Planet 2010: Connecting voices globally to meet the challenges of climate change, pover

Thank you also to Hans Vestberg from Ericsson and Matthew Bishop from the Economist who are co-hosting this event. I would like to greet the guests here at Columbia University and the thousand more
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Message on World Tuberculosis Day

As we approach the target year of 2015 for reaching the Millennium Development Goals, there is good news to report in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). The world is on track to reverse the spread o
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Remarks to the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development

Before I begin, I would like to welcome the presence of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Tajikistan, Mr. Oqil Oqilov. As we meet, the world economy shows signs of recovery, yet growth remains fr
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Message on World Water Day

Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet. It is connected directly to all our United Nations goals: improved maternal and child health and life expectancy,

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Message on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Fifty years ago today, scores of non-violent protestors were massacred in Sharpeville, South Africa, during a demonstration against the country's repugnant pass laws. The United Nations marks the Inte
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Message to New Energy Finance Summit

I am pleased to send my greetings to the New Energy Finance Summit. The decisions we make today on our energy future will have far-reaching consequences. To address climate change we need clean energy
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Message to the 34th UN International School-UN Conference - "Bioethics: Striking a Balance&quot

Please accept my best wishes for a successful conference today. I congratulate you on your choice of subject. Bioethics is a matter of growing international importance which has implications for many

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Remarks at launch of Massivegood Initiative of Innovative Finance for Health

Your Royal Highness Princess Cristina of Spain, Your Excellency Mrs. Pohamba, First Lady of Namibia, Mr. President Clinton, Distinguished ministers and guests, Dr Salomé, Managing Director of the

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Remarks to Commission on the Status of Women High-Level Event marking International Women's Day

Thank you very much, Madame Chair, Maria Hinojosa, Your Excellency Ms. Meng Xiaosi, [Head of Chinese delegation to CSW], H. E. Mr. Audun Lysbakken, Minister of Gender Equality of Norway, Deputy Secret
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Remarks to Gala Benefit to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to be here and to lend my support to this cause. Slavery is an abhorrent practice that we are still working to eradicate in many parts of the
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Message on World Day of Social Justice

On the World Day of Social Justice, we recognize the importance of tackling poverty, exclusion and unemployment, in order to promote solidarity, harmony and equality of opportunity within and between

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Remarks to the Security Council on Haiti and on cooperation between the United Nations and regional

Before I begin, please allow me to say a few words on the devastating earthquake which happened in Haiti, and I thank members of the Council for your expressions of sympathy and condolences, and solid
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Message for the International Year of Biodiversity [2010]

Over the past half-century, human activities have caused an unprecedented decline in biological diversity. Species are going extinct a thousand times faster than the natural rate ? a loss now being fu
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Message on World AIDS Day

The world is seeing signs of progress in reversing the AIDS epidemic in some countries. Investments in the AIDS response are producing results and saving lives. At the same time, in global terms new
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Message on the International Day for Tolerance

Globalization continues to bring people closer together. Internet chatrooms and social networking sites enable us to connect with people we will never meet. Global branding and the growth of internati
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Statement to the 2009 Global Renewable Energy Forum [delivered by Magdy Martinz-Soliman, UN Resident

I am pleased to greet all those participating in the 2009 Global Renewable Energy Forum. I thank the Government of Mexico, which has organized this gathering with the support of UNIDO, and all who hav
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Secretary-General's message on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

Sustainable development depends, in large part, on the implementation of agreed environmental goals, targets and objectives. Among the considerable number of multilateral environmental agreements agre
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Speech to World Climate Conference-3

The Copenhagen climate change meeting is less than three months away. Indeed it is closer than that. We have only fifteen negotiating days left before we meet in Copenhagen. Fifteen days to resolve