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Make a choice of United Nations body and/or other options and enter key words and/or symbol in boxes below, then click "Find". |
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Only one field is required, but to refine your search, please enter as much information as you may have. |
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A list of matching documents will be displayed in a NEW window, showing the most recent releases first. |
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Use standard British variant: for example, spell labour, centre instead of labor, center. |
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Releases are available since 13 October 1995. |
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Returns releases from the selected United Nations Body or option. |
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Can be combined with keywords and/or symbol search. |
Keyword(s) in headline |
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This option will return releases in which the words you enter appears in the headline. It may be combined with a un body or a symbol search. |
Symbol |
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All press releases are categorised and classified according to symbols (a full list is available here), for instance statements by the Secretary-General are classified as SG/SM/. This search may be combined with UN body and/or keywords and by separating several symbols with commas you may look for several different symbols using the same keyword(s). |
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Please note that press conferences are not classified under any symbol and if you enter a symbol in your search, the results will not return any press conference summaries. |
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Note also that not all releases are classified with a second symbol. For instance, any meeting of a UN Body such as the Security Council or the General Assembly, will only be classified under the symbol SC/ and GA/ respectively. I.e. a Security Council meeting on Africa will NOT be categorised under the symbol AFR/. |
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Enter keyword(s) or phrase(s) to find within the full text of all releases. |
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Use quotation marks to enclose phrases, e.g. "International Day". Words entered this way will appear together in all results exactly as you have entered them. |
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If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a "+" sign in front of it. Examples of common words are "where" and "how," as well as certain single digits and single letters. Similarly you may need to put a "+" sign in a phrase to force inclusion of common words. Make sure that you include a space before the "+" sign, e.g. without +a vote |
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Choose if you want to find all of the words, any of the words or the exact phrase you entered |
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On the results page you can sort by Date by clicking on "Date" on the upper right side at the prompt Sort by: Date / Relevance. |
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