Meetings Coverage
- Concluding Session, Permanent Forum Says Impact of Racist ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ Endures Today, but Indigenous Rights Declaration Offers Framework for Redress (18 May 2012)
Lamenting the enduring manifestations of the “Doctrine of Discovery” and other morally condemnable, socially unjust and racist policies used for centuries by colonizers as legal justification to disenfranchise indigenous peoples and seize their lands, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today urged the rejection of such “nefarious” dogmas, and encouraged measures that would redefine relations between native and aboriginal peoples and the State based on justice.
HR/5099 - Security Council Imposes Travel Ban on Five Leaders of Coup in Guinea-Bissau, Demands Immediate Steps to Restore Constitutional Order (18 May 2012)
Deploring the continuing refusal of coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau to reinstate legitimate authority in the country, the Security Council this afternoon imposed targeted sanctions against them, establishing a new monitoring committee and requesting the Secretary-General to be actively engaged in coordinating international efforts to help restore constitutional order.
SC/10653 - Faltering Economic Recovery, Risk of Another Recession, ‘Reason to Recommit’, Secretary-General Tells Participants at Closing of Thematic Debate (18 May 2012)
Deeply concerned over the slow pace of global economic recovery and the risk of another recession, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Governments to strengthen their resolve to achieve sustainable development.
GA/11237
Press Releases
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Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Amends Two Entries on Its Sanctions List (18 May 2012)
On 18 May 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
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Security Council 1988 Committee Amends 13 Entries on Its Sanctions List (18 May 2012)
On 18 May 2012, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its List (the 1988 Sanctions List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1988 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
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‘Let Us Leave Here with One Shared Goal,’ Secretary-General Says at World Economy Debate: ‘To Galvanize Global Support for Transformative Agenda for Change’ (18 May 2012)
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the high-level thematic debate on the “State of the World Economy and Finance and Its Impact on Development”, 18 May, in New York:
SG/SM/14294-GA/11238-ECO/212
Press Conferences
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Press Conference on Fifth Anniversary of Indigenous Rights Declaration (17 May 2012)
At a Headquarters press conference today Members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, both past and present, called on indigenous peoples everywhere to persevere, remain optimistic and remember that, while they have made much progress in the five years since the Indigenous Rights Declaration had been adopted, a lot of work still lay ahead.
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Press Conference by Prosecutor of International Criminal Court on Libyan Situation (16 May 2012)
Probably the most urgent activity for the Libyan authorities right now was for them to decide who among the “thousands” of prisoners filling up the country’s prisons as a result of allegations of crimes committed during the reign of former leader Muammar al-Qadhafi should be investigated or released, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court Prosecutor told reporters today in New York.
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Press Conference by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator on Situation in Afghanistan (15 May 2012)
While the United Nations and its partners would continue to provide immediate humanitarian relief to Afghanistan, aid alone was not enough to deal with the conflict-torn nation’s myriad challenges, the United Nations humanitarian chief said today during a Headquarters news conference.
18 May 2012 
